拍品 8
8
AN EARLY VICTORIAN CHINOISERIE IRONSTONE POTTERY CHIMNEY PIECE, polychrome and gilt-decorated overall on a blue ground with floral trails, birds and insets in low relief, the serpentine-fronted later blue-painted shelf edged with stylised scrolls, the serpentine frieze centred by a simulated paper-scroll of chinoiserie figures by a building, on bowfronted jambs headed by lion-masks above greek-key, with greek-key plinth bases, both jambs with transfer-printed label CHINA CHIMNEY PIECE./MASON & CO PATENTEES STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES./PATENT IRON STONE CHINA around a caricatured royal coat-of-arms

細節
AN EARLY VICTORIAN CHINOISERIE IRONSTONE POTTERY CHIMNEY PIECE, polychrome and gilt-decorated overall on a blue ground with floral trails, birds and insets in low relief, the serpentine-fronted later blue-painted shelf edged with stylised scrolls, the serpentine frieze centred by a simulated paper-scroll of chinoiserie figures by a building, on bowfronted jambs headed by lion-masks above greek-key, with greek-key plinth bases, both jambs with transfer-printed label CHINA CHIMNEY PIECE./MASON & CO PATENTEES STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES./PATENT IRON STONE CHINA around a caricatured royal coat-of-arms
65in. (165cm.) wide; 49½in. (126cm.) high; 12in. (30cm.) deep
來源
Sir William Hutt (1801-1882), Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight

拍品專文

Miles Mason patented his Ironstone China, in fact a type of earthenware, in 1813.
From circa 1820 until at least the middle of the century, he produced chimneypieces in a variety of fashionable styles. An example of this chinoiserie model is illustrated in A. Kelly, The Book of English Fireplaces, London, 1968, p.77, fig.90. Another was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 17 March 1989, lot 36.
Sir William Hutt was a politician who married Mary, Dowager Countess of Strathmore in 1831. She was heiress to Durham coalfields and they lived at Streatlam Castle until her death in 1860. He returned to Appley Towers after 1860, having inherited the house from his father.