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THE FATHER OF THE REGENCY REVIVAL
'Avenue House returned under his guidance to the Regency home the Morris's would have known. It was more lavish in its furnishings probably, more heavily pictured certainly, but the interiors became redolent with the satinwood, mahogany and rosewood of the years 1770 to 1820. My grandfather was able to perform a number of rescues. The long scrubbed kitchen table which had been made for the house in 1770 was retrieved from a builder's yard and placed once more in the servants' hall, the pier-glass which had graced the dining room for one hundred and fifty years was found in a cake shop and re-installed and Mr Morris's account book obtained from a townsman and displayed in the study. The three 'conversation seats' with japanned frames and cane seats which had furnished the gallery in the 1820s were located through the long memory of old Harry Rixson of Dunstable. He remembered that he had bought the three of them at the sale of 1906, had sold two to Sir Philip Sassoon and kept one for himself. Sir Philip was persuaded to part with his pair for a nominal sum and all three were returned to their original home, indeed the original placing they had occupied in 1828'
S. Houfe, The Professor
A REGENCY PARCEL-GILT, WHITE-PAINTED, MAHOGANY AND BRONZED CONSOLE TABLE
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NORTH EUROPEAN
Details
A REGENCY PARCEL-GILT, WHITE-PAINTED, MAHOGANY AND BRONZED CONSOLE TABLE
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NORTH EUROPEAN
The shaped top above a frieze with applied stars, on four square tapering herm legs and block feet, the top possibly associated, decoration refreshed
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 54½ in. (138.5 cm.) wide;
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NORTH EUROPEAN
The shaped top above a frieze with applied stars, on four square tapering herm legs and block feet, the top possibly associated, decoration refreshed
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 54½ in. (138.5 cm.) wide;
Literature
'The Regency Interior and Decoration', House and Garden, September 1923, p. 75, illustrated in the Hall.
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