Each simulating white and green marble, the moulded top inlaid with scagolia cipollino marble vine leaves, the stems with blind fluting, with moulded bases on square plinth
Each column: 43 in. (109.3 cm.) high; 17 in. (43.2 cm.) diameter
With base: 46.5 in. (118 cm.) high

Almost certainly acquired by Ivor Bertie Guest (1835-1914), 1st Baron Wimborne, for 22 Arlington Street, London (Wimborne House), where photographed in a corridor in 1890 and 1902 and later depicted in the ballroom in 1937,
thence by descent to Ivor Churchill Guest (1873-1939), 1st Viscount Wimborne, where pictured at Ashby St Ledgers Manor, Northamptonshire in the New Dining Room before 1951 and later in the Music Room in 2004.

The King, 1902, illustrated in a corridor at Wimborne House, London.
'Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire - III', Country Life, vol. CX, 10 August 1951, pp. 420-23, fig. 7.
'The Manor House, Ashby St Ledgers', Country Life, 4 November 2004, pp. 61-68, fig. 4.

For further information on the collection of the Viscounts Wimborne please visit the tab ‘The Wimborne Collection’ on the main sale page.

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