A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SECRETAIRE
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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SECRETAIRE

BY S.JAMAR

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SECRETAIRE
By S.Jamar
The rectangular top above one long frieze drawer mounted with a Apollo mask and flanked by rose-garlands, fitted with an early cylinder-movement musical box, above a hinged counter-weighted fall-front mounted with a laurel-wreath enclosing a leather-lined writing surface and a fitted arcaded achitectural interior with a mirrored back and lozenge parquetry floor, divided and flanked by paired columns, above one central deep drawer and two further drawers to either side, one further fitted with an ink well and a sander, flanked and divided by paired classical female figures, two doors below enclosing three mahogany lined long drawers, flanked by full-length Corinthian columns to either side, on tapering turned feet, stamped three times 'S.JAMAR', the mounts to the front probably French
60½ in. (154 cm.) high; 44¾ in. (114 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep
來源
Anonymous sale, Christie's Scotland, 26-27 April 1989, lot 355
出版
C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 35 and figs. 513 and 514.
注意事項
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拍品專文

S. Jamar designed and produced furniture in such a confident French Empire style, he must have been trained, if not brought up on the Continent. By 1819 he was at 29 Wardour Street and advertised his works as 'equal to any made in Paris'. A closely related fall-front secretaire not only bearing his stamp but also a trade label reading 'Jamar, French cabinet maker; manufactures all sorts of French furniture in the most fashionable manner, 29 Wardour Street, Soho', was sold, from the property of Sir Antony Hornby, in these rooms, 19 November 1970, lot 46. His nationality is still unknown, however, although the lock plate of another closely related secrétaire à abattant is engraved 'S Jamar Cabinet Maker to Louis Bonaparte King of Holland' (sold, Sotheby's London, 5 May 1989, lot 131).