MORNING SESSION AT 10:30 A.M.
OBJECTS OF ART AND FURNITURE
The Property of
The late HON. ANGELA BARING
Sold by Order of the Executors
(Lots 201-203)
A GROUP OF PIQUE WORK
Piqué is thought to have appeared at the end of the 16th Century in Naples. Horn or tortoiseshell was softened in boiling water with some olive oil. When soft, a design of mother-of-pearl, gold or silver strips or pinpoints was impressed. By the late 17th Century the technique was practised in France, England and northern Europe, with Paris and Naples as the principal centres.
There are many references to piqué work in advertisements and sale catalogues of the 18th Century. In his catalogue of The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, Fribourg, 1974, vol. II, p. 838, Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue refers to the collection of 'picay' work formed by Queen Charlotte, consort to King George III: this included an inkstand and two snuff-boxes that were later sold in these Rooms, 18 May 1819, lot 30, 25 May 1819, lot 67 and 26 May 1819, lot 17. Similarly, Robert Adam is recorded as having bought three 'very handsome snuff-boxes of yellow and black tortoiseshell studded with gold...' on a visit to Naples in 1755 (J. Flemming, Robert Adam and his Circle, London, 1962, p.157).
A piqué toilet set of closely related design was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 8 December 1994, lot 502 and an inkstand with further mother-of-pearl inlay from the collections of The Cholmondeley Family and The Late Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., was sold in these Rooms, Works of Art from Houghton, 8 December 1994, lot 87.
A PAIR OF NEAPOLITAN GOLD-INLAID TORTOISESHELL PIQUE TRAYS
MID-18TH CENTURY
细节
A PAIR OF NEAPOLITAN GOLD-INLAID TORTOISESHELL PIQUE TRAYS
Mid-18th Century
Each with shaped rectangular-dished tray centred by a landscape of Roman buildings and various figures, with butterflies and birds within a scrolling acanthus and floral border, the raised sides with conforming decoration and a lappeted rim, minor lifting of the metal
12in. (30.5cm.) wide (2)
Mid-18th Century
Each with shaped rectangular-dished tray centred by a landscape of Roman buildings and various figures, with butterflies and birds within a scrolling acanthus and floral border, the raised sides with conforming decoration and a lappeted rim, minor lifting of the metal
12in. (30.5cm.) wide (2)