A LATE VICTORIAN POLYCHROME-PAINTED SATINWOOD BONHEUR DU JOUR

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A LATE VICTORIAN POLYCHROME-PAINTED SATINWOOD BONHEUR DU JOUR
Crossbanded overall in tulipwood and inlaid with boxwood lines, decorated overall with ribbon-tied floral garlands, the graduated superstructure with waved gallery to the top and three drawers to the bottom, the lower section banded in mahogany with a rectangular top above a frieze drawer decorated with flowers and birds, above a pair of concave-fronted doors decorated with classical figures, the sides each with a music trophy, on square tapering legs, brass caps and castors, with remains of depository label to the underside, adapted from plain George III satinwood elements
56 in. (144 cm.) high; 30 in. (77.5 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep

拍品專文

The 1794 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster features a hollow-fronted commode desk of this form surmounted by a bookcase or cartonnier (L. Boynton, (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 49). The myrtle-wreathed tableaux of Apollo, god of poetry, taught to play the lyre by a centaur, and a centauress with a lyre, derive from celebrated paintings in Herculaneum (T. Martyn and J. Lettice, The Antiquities of Herculaneum, London, 1773).