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Provenance

Sir Guy Francis Laking, Meyrick Lodge, Avenue Road, London, UK 

Captain Edward G. Spencer-Churchill (1876-1964), Northwick Park, Blockley, Gloucestershire, UK; acquired 19th April 1920 

'Kamer' (probably Gallerie Kamer, New York, USA); acquired from Christie’s, London, UK, 21st June 1965, for 320 guineas 

Robin Symes, London, UK; acquired 12th July 1971

Daphne Koutoulakis, Geneva, Switzerland; inherited from her father, Nicolas Koutoulakis, in 1996

Sir Guy Francis Laking was Keeper of the King’s Armoury, Keeper of the Armouries, Wallace Collection; and Keeper of the London Museum.

Captain Spencer-Churchill was cousin to Sir Winston Churchill. He inherited Northwick Park from his maternal grandmother in 1912, and was awarded the Military Cross in WWI. He was a renowned collector of antiquities.

Literature

Compare Jean-Louis Zimmerman, Collection de la Fondation Thétis (Geneva, 1987), no.125. Etruscan bronze candelabrum stands inspired copies made by the Romans; for a bronze lamp stand from the 1st century AD with similar elements, compare an example in The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, USA, accession number 54.1915

Publications

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, London, UK, Catalogue of the Collection of Arms and Armour and Objects of Art formed by Sir Guy Francis Laking, Bart, 19th April 1920, lot 384 (there described as Greek, and with the measurements including its shaft, now missing). 

Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd, London, UK, Catalogue of Antiquities from the Northwick Park Collection, the Property of the late Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill, M.C., 21st June 1965, lot 483, where the tripod base is illustrated as complete with a tall shaft, though this was possibly not ancient.

Sotheby’s, London, UK, Catalogue of Egyptian, Irish Bronze Age, Western Asiatic, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Frankish and Viking Antiquities, 12th July 1971, lot 125; the shaft must have been removed some time after this sale