CIRCA 1810, AFTER THE DESIGN BY THOMAS HOPE, NOW FITTED AS A STOOL

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY PLINTH
CIRCA 1810, AFTER THE DESIGN BY THOMAS HOPE, NOW FITTED AS A STOOL
With later buttoned brown leather seat, the base carved to the corners with winged lions divided by S-scrolls, scallop shells and rosettes, on a concave-sided base, conceived as the base for a dining room pedestal, one side later carved, now finished in the round
18 3/4 in. (47.5 cm.) high; 28 1/4 in. (71.5 cm.) square

Literature

D. Watkin and P. Hewat-Jaboor, Thomas Hope: Regency Designer, New Haven and London, 2008, p. 376, no. 66.5, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The design for this plinth relates directly to a design by Thomas Hope (1769-1831) for a dining room pedestal, published in A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, plate XXIV, no. 6, which he noted as being 'imitated from an Etruscan altar in the villa Borgese'. The plan (or cross-section from above) of this pedestal was also published as plate 55, no. 2. At some point this pedestal was adapted to form a stool, and carving was added to what had been the fourth uncarved side, originally intended to be placed against the wall in a dining room.

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