拍品专文
This elliptic pier table is designed in the George III French manner of the 1770s. Its flute and husk-enriched frieze is festooned with drapery and is supported on tripod acanthus-enriched trusses terminating in ribbon-tied bacchic lion-paws. The whorled trusses relate to those of a tripod-cassolette sketched in the early 1770s in the ormolu pattern books of Boulton and Fothergill (see: N. Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, fig. 161b).
The general composition of this table evolved from one designed in 1756 by the architect Robert Adam (d.1792) for Sir Lawrence Dundas (see: A.T. Bolton, The Life and Architecture of Robert and James Adam, London, 1922, vol. II, p. 291). However, the more elegant form is closer to that of elliptic pier-tables, with voluted trusses, designed in the early 1770s by John Yenn (d.1821) for Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (see: P. Ward-Jackson, English Furniture Designs of the 18th Century, London, 1958, fig. 261). The design relates very strongly to a group of tables by Mayhew and Ince of which one was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 12 October 1996, lot 191. Amongst other drapery-swagged tables by Mayhew and Ince is a sideboard table which they supplied about 1770 to Lord Kerry (see: C. Cator, 'The Idlest Ostentation: The Earl of Kerry and Mayhew and Ince', Furniture History, 1990, pp. 27-33, figs. 1-2).
CARLTON HALL
Carlton Hall, now called Carlton Towers, is the ancient home of the Stapleton family who in 1840 successfully claimed the Beaumont barony that had been extinct since 1507. The house was much altered during the long tenure of Thomas Stapleton from 1750 to 1821. He continued the process begun by his father of modernising the Jacobean interiors and from 1770 built the huge east wing to the designs of Thomas Atkinson (d.1798). The wing was again altered for the 9th Lord Beaumont in the 1870s, the exterior by E.W. Pugin, the interior by J.F. Bentley, in which much of the 18th Century furniture was displaced.
The general composition of this table evolved from one designed in 1756 by the architect Robert Adam (d.1792) for Sir Lawrence Dundas (see: A.T. Bolton, The Life and Architecture of Robert and James Adam, London, 1922, vol. II, p. 291). However, the more elegant form is closer to that of elliptic pier-tables, with voluted trusses, designed in the early 1770s by John Yenn (d.1821) for Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (see: P. Ward-Jackson, English Furniture Designs of the 18th Century, London, 1958, fig. 261). The design relates very strongly to a group of tables by Mayhew and Ince of which one was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 12 October 1996, lot 191. Amongst other drapery-swagged tables by Mayhew and Ince is a sideboard table which they supplied about 1770 to Lord Kerry (see: C. Cator, 'The Idlest Ostentation: The Earl of Kerry and Mayhew and Ince', Furniture History, 1990, pp. 27-33, figs. 1-2).
CARLTON HALL
Carlton Hall, now called Carlton Towers, is the ancient home of the Stapleton family who in 1840 successfully claimed the Beaumont barony that had been extinct since 1507. The house was much altered during the long tenure of Thomas Stapleton from 1750 to 1821. He continued the process begun by his father of modernising the Jacobean interiors and from 1770 built the huge east wing to the designs of Thomas Atkinson (d.1798). The wing was again altered for the 9th Lord Beaumont in the 1870s, the exterior by E.W. Pugin, the interior by J.F. Bentley, in which much of the 18th Century furniture was displaced.