A Pair of George III Carved Mahogany Pedestals, Possibly Circa 1775

Archbold Van Beuren (1906-1974), Gray Craig, Newport, Rhode Island;

Sotheby's New York, 24-25 April 1987, lot 255.

For a pair of pedestals of the same model:

Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London 1927, Vol. III p.154 fig.7

Christopher Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds 1978, Vol. II no.364 p.302

A pair of pedestals of identical model, illustrated in the Dictionary of English Furniture, is now in the collection of Temple Newsam House, Leeds. As Christopher Gilberts writes in his catalogue of the Temple Newsam furniture (p.301), 'The age of these pedestals has been the subject of much debate...the carving and construction are now believed on excellent authority to be consistent with eighteenth century work, and although lingering doubts remain, they deserve to be catalogued as of the period'.