Lot Essay
This lit-en-bateau decorated Angus McBean's Empire room at 12 Devonshire Terrace, Brighton between 1948-50 and later at Gibson Square, Islington, 1953-1963.
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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOT 410)
A FRENCH EMPIRE ORMOLU MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIT-EN-BATEAU
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Details
A FRENCH EMPIRE ORMOLU MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIT-EN-BATEAU
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With scrolled paneled ends mounted with rosettes, seahorses and winged male figures, with a deeply carved side panel centered by a beaded roundel with a mask and crescent and issuing flowering and foliate stems, presumably originally with turned top rails
45½ in. (116 cm.) high, 57 in. (145 cm.) wide, 93 in. (236 cm.) long
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With scrolled paneled ends mounted with rosettes, seahorses and winged male figures, with a deeply carved side panel centered by a beaded roundel with a mask and crescent and issuing flowering and foliate stems, presumably originally with turned top rails
45½ in. (116 cm.) high, 57 in. (145 cm.) wide, 93 in. (236 cm.) long
Provenance
Angus McBean, Brighton and London, England.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 13 September 2005, lot 881.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 13 September 2005, lot 881.
Literature
'A house of magnificent sets', House and Garden, December 1962, p.62.
Robin Muir, 'The Legacy of Angus', The World of Interiors, September 2005.
Robin Muir, 'The Legacy of Angus', The World of Interiors, September 2005.
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