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Lot Essay
This scroll ended bed relates in characater to a pattern for a 'Sofa or French Bed' with canopy and gilt-metal ornaments published in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts in January 1809 (see P.Agius, ed., Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Wiltshire, 1984, p.40, pl.4).
Designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner, this bed may be attributable to Louis Constantin Le Gaigneur (fl.1814-1822), the 'French Buhl Manufacturer' of 19 Queen Street, Edgware Road who was patronized by George, Prince of Wales later King George IV and his intimate circle including Thomas Noel, 2nd Lord Berwick. The bed relates to a 'an elegant...grecian-scroll end French couch bedsted' which was almost certainly supplied by Le Gaigneur to Lord Berwick for Attingham Park, Shropshire and is described as above in the 1827 house sale. This is thought to be the bed sold Christie's London, the property of a Gentleman, 16 November 1995, lot 322. Lord Berwick certainly patronised Le Gaigneur as there is a signed inkwell at Attingham (M. Levy, 'Taking up the pen', Country Life, 23 April 1992, p.60, fig.1), as well as other pieces which relate to his oeuvre.
Designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner, this bed may be attributable to Louis Constantin Le Gaigneur (fl.1814-1822), the 'French Buhl Manufacturer' of 19 Queen Street, Edgware Road who was patronized by George, Prince of Wales later King George IV and his intimate circle including Thomas Noel, 2nd Lord Berwick. The bed relates to a 'an elegant...grecian-scroll end French couch bedsted' which was almost certainly supplied by Le Gaigneur to Lord Berwick for Attingham Park, Shropshire and is described as above in the 1827 house sale. This is thought to be the bed sold Christie's London, the property of a Gentleman, 16 November 1995, lot 322. Lord Berwick certainly patronised Le Gaigneur as there is a signed inkwell at Attingham (M. Levy, 'Taking up the pen', Country Life, 23 April 1992, p.60, fig.1), as well as other pieces which relate to his oeuvre.