拍品 115
115
Various Properties
A SET OF REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY STEPS, the rectangular coffer-shaped body with moulded rectangular hinged top enclosing six green leather-lined treads, their ends carved in relief and C-scrolls, with a detachable hand-rail of columnar form with gadrooned finials and roundel-panelled blocks, the coffer-shaped body with raised cut-cornered, moulded panels, flanked by stiff-leaf headed spreading panelled pilaster strips above a waved scrolled bracket apron, on gadrooned feet with brass castors, restorations, the removable hand-rail replaced

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A SET OF REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY STEPS, the rectangular coffer-shaped body with moulded rectangular hinged top enclosing six green leather-lined treads, their ends carved in relief and C-scrolls, with a detachable hand-rail of columnar form with gadrooned finials and roundel-panelled blocks, the coffer-shaped body with raised cut-cornered, moulded panels, flanked by stiff-leaf headed spreading panelled pilaster strips above a waved scrolled bracket apron, on gadrooned feet with brass castors, restorations, the removable hand-rail replaced
71in. (180cm.) wide, fully extended; 92in. (234cm.) high, including hand-rail; 26¼in. (66.5cm.) deep

拍品專文

These metamorphic library-steps are designed in the early 19th Century French/antique manner popularised by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. Its form evolved from the celebrated Harewood House library-stool/steps supplied in 1771 by Thomas Chippendale (d.1778), while its pilasters relate to those of the Carlton House desk designed in 1811 for George, Prince Regent, later King George IV by Thomas Tatham (d.1818) of Messrs. Tatham, Bailey and Saunders, cabinet-makers of Mount Street