NETHERLANDISH METALWORK 275
One of a pair 479
- Pair of Torcheres
Dutch, circa 1740-1750
(?) By the Italian carver, Agostino Carlini
Gessoed, painted, and gilded wood; crushed
glass
Height: 6 ft. uVs in. (212.4 cm); Width:
2 ft. 3 in. (68.6 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 10 in.
(55.9 cm)
Accession number 79.DA.5.1-.2
PROVENANCE
(?) Orangezaal, Royal Palace, Huis ten
Bosch, Holland; Neues Palais, Potsdam,
1895 (purchased in Amsterdam, 1895); dis
played in the Japis Galerie, 1926; (sold,
Palais Galliera, Paris, December 9,1963, lot
93); [Fabius Frιres, Paris, 1970s].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Burkhard Meier, Potsdam Schlφsser und
Gδrten aufgenommen von der Staatliche
Bildstelle (Berlin, 1926), fig. 46; Wilson,
"Acquisitions 1977 to mid 1979," no. 13,
pp. 49-51, illus. (one); Marten Loonstra,
The Royal PaUce Huis ten Bosch in a Histori
cal View (Zutphen, 1985), p. 75, illus. p. 74.
Metalwork
- Chandelier
Dutch, circa 1645-1675
Brass and oil-gilt wrought iron
Height: approx. 5 ft. (153 cm); Width:
approx. 5 ft. (153 cm)
Accession number 88 .DH.62
PROVENANCE
Count Moretus-Plantin, Stabroek, Belgium
(until at least 1930); Count G. della Faille
de Leverghem, Schoten, Belgium (by 1961);
[Axel Vervoordt, s Gravenwezel, Belgium].
EXHIBITIONS
Antwerp, Tentoonstelling van Oude Vlaamsche
Kunst (Exhibition of Old Flemish Art), 1930,
"D 178"; Duerne-Antwerp, Provinciaal
Museum voor Kunstambachten, Tentoon
stelling Kunstvoorwerpen uit Verzamelingen
in de Provincie Antwerpen (Exhibition of
Decorative Arts from Collections in the
Province of Antwerp), 23 April-2 July 1961,
no. 245, p. 34.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1988," GettyMus]YJ (1989),
no. 88, p. 148, illus.
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