A Dutch lime and pine hall bench

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

細節

A Dutch lime and pine hall bench
Early 18th Century
The pierced arched back centred by a classical female bust, surmounted by foliate plumes and a berried boss, flanked by panelled strapwork scrolls decorated with flower-heads and carved with scrolling acanthus, the sides carved with scrolling acanthus, the seat above a foliate edge and a waved panelled apron carved with stylised acanthus, the panelled scrolling sides carved with oak-leaves and a meandering snake, on later trestle feet
122cm. high x 196cm. wide x 41cm. deep

拍品專文

The general shape and decoration of this hall bench relates to numerous designs for headboards of state beds in Marot's Nouveaux Livre d'Appartement. In these designs, the panelled strapwork toprail decorated with flower-heads features as the cresting of the headboard. Closely related female busts were often incorporated in stucco wall decorations, executed to Marot's specifications, such as those in the hall of Huis Schuylenburg in The Hague, which were modelled by Giovanni Battista Luraghi (1675-1736) in 1715. (K. Ottenheym et. al., Daniel Marot, vormgever van een deftig bestaan, Zutphen, 1988, pp. 53-55, figs. 9-11 and Pl. 77)