A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III IRISH MAHOGANY HALL SEATS, each with waisted rectangular back and waved toprail centred by an anthemion amidst acanthus-scrolls with flowerhead terminals and finials, above a band of flowerhead-filled entrelac and a panel centred by a painted oval cartouche with the ferocious horse crest of the Bowes-Daly family flanked by drapery swags with baluster and ring-turned arms above a panelled seat and on channelled sabre legs, each with pale-yellow silk-covered buttoned squab

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出版

C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 91

拍品专文

The seat design with scrolled Grecian-couch supports, ribbon-guilloche frieze and palmette-centred scrolled pediment to the panelled back, with its tablet centred by a painted medallion within a festoon drapery veil, derives in simplified form from hall seats at Castle Coole, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland. The latter bearing the crest of Somerset Corry, 2nd Earl of Belmore, of Enniskillen (d. 1845) are thought to have been supplied about 1807 by John and Nathaniel Preston, cabinet-makers and upholsterers of Dublin, (illustrated in situ G. Mott, 'Castle Coole', Irish Arts Review, 1900, p. 90). Their Grecian character corresponds to the 'antique' style promoted by the connoisseur Thomas Hope in the furnishings of his Duchess Street mansion/museum around 1800 and popularised by his guide/pattern book Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807; in particular the cresting relates to that of his Grecian sofa, pl. 18