A GEORGE III EBONY-INLAID SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY AND EBONIZED MUSIC STAND

CIRCA 1800

Details

A GEORGE III EBONY-INLAID SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY AND EBONIZED MUSIC STAND
Circa 1800
The hinged adjustable canted rectangular top with crossbanded surround and with hinged music ledge and pullout arms to the sides above a line-inlaid baluster stem, on similarly-inlaid splayed legs and ebonized lions' paw feet
Approximately 40in. (101.5cm.) high (extended), 15in. (40cm.) wide, 13in. (33cm.) deep

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 16 November 1984, lot 148 (11,880).

Lot Essay

The music stand, with golden satinwood tablet framed in an Etruscan-black fillet and Grecian-scrolled tripod 'claw' terminating in bacchic brozne-black lion paws, relfects the antique fashion illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.

A related music stand, with mirror plate and stump rather than bacchic paw feet, was sold Bonhams London, 8 July 1998, lot 298. Its very high quality relates to the work of Messrs. Seddon, Sons and Shackleton, whose manufactures are discussed by C.Gilbert, 'Seddon, Sons & Shackleton', Furniture History, 1997, pp.1-29.