A LATE VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CELLARET

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'a remarkable gathering of fine and individual furniture' Margaret Jourdain Colonel Norman Colville, M.C. (1893-1974) Colonel Colville was an exceptional connoisseur-collector of the years immediately following the First World War, in which he had been wounded by poison gas. His superb collection of English furniture had a particular emphasis on seat-furniture, and he was very unusual among his contemporaries for his interest in upholstery beyond needlework, including magnificent decayed survivals of the grandest late 17th century coverings. His collection was well known to Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, compilers of the Dictionary of English Furniture in the 1920s, and many illustrations of his furniture were used in those volumes. That his collection was considered from an early date to be particularly strong in examples of chairs and upholstery is shown by an article by Margaret Jourdain devoted exclusively to seat-furniture in Country Life in October 1923. Margaret Jourdain described the collection as 'a remarkable gathering of fine and individual furniture'. More recently John Cornforth described Colonel Colville as 'a connoisseur with an exceptional eye for works of art'. THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN, FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF COLONEL NORMAN COLVILLE M.C. (1893-1974) (LOTS 60-89)

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A LATE VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CELLARET
The hexagonal top with circular gadrooned dome with berried finial, enclosing a metal removable bucket, above a flower-filled entrelac frieze, on ram monopodia legs with pierced patera and laurel-wreathed oval handles, the cleft feet with sunk castors
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high; 17 in. (43.5 cm.) diam.

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Lady Bilsland, sister of Colonel James Colville M.C.

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The measurements are 29 in. (74 cm.) wide; 19¾ in. (50 cm.) diam., and not as stated in the catalogue.

拍品专文

A cistern of this pattern, with bacchic thyrsus finial and ram monopodia, was advertised by Messrs. Conrath as being in the French 'Empire' style in The Cabinet-Maker and Art Furnisher of January 1895 (F. Collard, Regency Furniture, London, 1985, p. 245). Another, at Balls Park, Hertfordshire, is illustrated in R. Edwards & P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 133, fig. 24.; another was sold from the Alfred H. Caspary Collection, Parke-Bernet, New York, 29-30 April 1955, lot 276, in the Judge Irwin Untermyer Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture: The Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1958, fig. 49); while a further example is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev. ed., 1965, fig. 163.