Lot 15
15
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A GILTWOOD WALL APPLIQUE with a rustic folly built around a tree, the rusticated walls with trelliswork windows flanked by pierced scrolled acanthus, upon a rockwork and foliate platform with a ladder leading to the door, upon a naturalistically carved foliate plinth with a seated gentleman and his attendant horse

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A GILTWOOD WALL APPLIQUE with a rustic folly built around a tree, the rusticated walls with trelliswork windows flanked by pierced scrolled acanthus, upon a rockwork and foliate platform with a ladder leading to the door, upon a naturalistically carved foliate plinth with a seated gentleman and his attendant horse
30in. (76.5cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) wide

Lot Essay

This applique is inspired by a design issued twice by the virtuoso carver Thomas Johnson (1714-c.1778), first in his Collection of Designs, 1758, pl.41 and again in One Hundred and Fifty New Designs, 1761, pl.51. The eating horse is a distinctive and recurrent feature of Johnson's designs of this rustic type.

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