ATTRIBUTED TO HOLLAND AND SONS, MID-19TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN BRASS-MOUNTED CALAMANDER ETAGERE
ATTRIBUTED TO HOLLAND AND SONS, MID-19TH CENTURY
Of rounded rectangular form, the three-quarter baluster gallery above four shelves with beaded borders supported by foliate-carved and fluted columns on brass-mounted tapering legs, with caps and castors, the castors stamped 'COPES PATENT'
38¼ in. (97 cm.) high; 27½ in. (70 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Phillips, London, 25 June 2001, lot 143.

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Lot Essay

This ormolu-enriched étagère, designed in the French/antique or Louis Seize manner, evokes lyric-poetry with Etruscan 'Venus' pearls wreathing its Grecian black-figured coromandel shelves; while Apollo's poetic laurels wreath the urns supporting its antique-fluted and black japanned columns. Amongst the leading firms promoting this fashion was the court cabinet-makers Messrs Holland & Sons, following their adoption of premises in Mayfairs Mount Street in 1851. For more details on the distinguishing characteristics of Holland and Sons furniture, see the Christie's catalogue, Furniture and Clocks, 23 April 2009, p.77-87. Similar three-tiered stands of this pattern were sold Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 1999, lot 219, and 16 April 2005, lot 153.

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