拍品 105
105
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN ?
A CHARLES X ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE, the later rounded rectangular green leather-lined top with pierced pigeon-holed superstructure, each section with anthemion finials and scrolled gallery, linked by a central trellis gallery below a scrolled anthemion finial, with lotus-leaf cornice, above three panelled mahogany-lined frieze drawers mounted with anthemia and lotus-leaf, the reverse with three later drawers, on heavily scrolled legs cast with flowerheads beading and scrolls, with chamfered shaft and on claw feet, minor restorations, one section of sliding anthemion lockplate missing

細節
A CHARLES X ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE, the later rounded rectangular green leather-lined top with pierced pigeon-holed superstructure, each section with anthemion finials and scrolled gallery, linked by a central trellis gallery below a scrolled anthemion finial, with lotus-leaf cornice, above three panelled mahogany-lined frieze drawers mounted with anthemia and lotus-leaf, the reverse with three later drawers, on heavily scrolled legs cast with flowerheads beading and scrolls, with chamfered shaft and on claw feet, minor restorations, one section of sliding anthemion lockplate missing
59in. (150cm.) wide; 40in. (101.5cm.) high; 31½in. (80cm.) deep
來源
The Earls of Inchcape, Glenapp Castle, Ayrshire

拍品專文

Designed in the early 19th Century 'antique' manner, popularised by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Receuil de Decorations Intérieurs, 1801, the desk's palmette-enriched frieze derives from decoration tablets in an artist's studio illustrated in the Receuil. Likewise its bacchic lion-monopodiae feet evolved from those of a swan-headed stand, conceived in the manner of an athenienne tripod. The latter also provided the inspiration for a related Viennese dressing-table design published in 1816 (see: G. Himmelheber, Deutsche Mobelvorlagen 1800-1900, Munich, 1988, no. 1209)