Live Auction 6548Michael Lipitch II
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY HALL BENCH
Lot 7

A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY HALL BENCH

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GBP 8,225

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY HALL BENCH
The shaped arched solid back with scrolling foliage and centred by a blind cartouche, the solid rectangular seat flanked by rounded ends, above a patera-enriched frieze, on rectangular tapering panelled legs with gadrooned feet
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 75 in. (190.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The banqueting hall seat has hermed legs evoking the Roman 'altar' popularised by C.H. Tatham's Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture, London, 1799 (p. 46), while its Grecian palm-flowered pediment and acrotia and frieze of libation-plates or paterae reflect the robust George IV antique style promoted by Henry Whitaker's Designs of Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture in the Most Modern Style, 1825.