A GILTWOOD SETTEE of 17th century style, the winged padded back, arm-rests and squab cushion covered in green floral silk damask, on turned legs and bun feet, late 19th or early 20th Century

細節

A GILTWOOD SETTEE of 17th century style, the winged padded back, arm-rests and squab cushion covered in green floral silk damask, on turned legs and bun feet, late 19th or early 20th Century
48½in. (123cm.) wide

來源

Major General Sir George Burns, North Mymms Park, Hatfield, Christie's house sale, 24-25 September 1979, lot 105

拍品專文

The brother-in-law of J. Pierpont Morgan, Walter Hayes Burns undertook considerable alterations at North Mymms under the guidance of Sir Ernest George and this replica is likely to have been supplied by Messrs. Lenygon of 31 Old Burlington Street around the turn of the century

It was Sir Charles Eastlake, in his Hints on Household Furniture, 1872, the first drew attention to the celebrated double-seat, now known as the Knole settee, when he discovered in the webbing proof that it was of early 17th Century origin. It also featured in H. Avray Tipping's articles in Country Life of 1912 and in Margaret Jourdain's English Decoration and Furniture, 1924, fig. 351.