拍品 128
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A PAIR OF WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OAK WALL BRACKETS

AFTER A DESIGN BY WILLIAM GIBBS ROGERS, 19TH CENTURY

细节
A PAIR OF WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OAK WALL BRACKETS
After a design by William Gibbs Rogers, 19th Century
Each of tapering form with shaped rectangular top and a naturalistically-carved stork with outspread wings standing in front of bullrushes issuing flowers, the flat tops each with a 1 inch (2.54 cm.) diameter screw hole, the bullrushes previously green painted, probably originally undecorated, both inscribed in pencil 'H540' to the reverse, one with typed label, 'BON/154/TUD'
11½ in. (29 cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

William Gibbs Rogers (1792-1875) earned his reputation as an expert wood carver, primarily by imitating and expanding the style of the famous 17th Century wood-carver, Grinling Gibbons (d.1721). The design for this bracket with the stork among the bullrushes can be seen in the engraved examples of his carvings in The Crystal Palace Exhibition, Illustrated Catalogue, London 1851 and facsimile ed. New York, 1970, p. 8.