A REGENCE GILTWOOD BANQUETTE with later green and white simulated marble moulded seat and frieze above a vigorously carved scrolling foliage C-scroll and rockwork pierced apron supported by rockwork cabriole legs headed by facing chinoiserie masks and flanked by serpent-entwined cabriole legs joined by triple X-shaped rockwork and scrolling foliage-carved stretchers, on scroll feet, now on a simulated granite rectangular plinth, with indecipherable customs stamp, restorations to the back seat-rail, two central back legs and the stretchers

THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN

細節

來源

The Viscounts Powerscourt, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Eire

出版

Exhibition Catalogue, 'Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland', The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, Antrim, 1988, p. 154, where three banquettes of this model are illustrated in situ in the Saloon.

拍品專文

The serpent-dragons entwining the legs and emerging to hiss at chinoiserie rustic heads on the central supports, derive from table patterns conceived by Nicolas Pineau in his Nouveaux Desseins de Pieds de Tables et de Vases et Consoles de Sculpture en bois, published by J. J. Mariette in 1734. They also relate to a design for a console table by Bernard Toro (1661 - 1735), illustrated in Livre de Tables de Diverses Formes published in Paris by C. N. Le Pas-Du Buisson in 1716. The heads of the dragons are similar to those which appear on a console table in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, illustrated Chefs - d'oeuvre du Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1985, p. 49, the pair to which is in the Toledo Museum, U.S.A.

A stool from this set belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Slazenger was sold Christie's house sale, Powerscourt, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Eire, 24-25 September 1984, lot 444. Another pair was sold by Dr. George Kastal, Sotheby's, Florence