拍品 108
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A REGENCY SIMULATED MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT WINDOW SEAT after a design by Thomas Sheraton, with twin lion-mask headed scrolled end-supports and padded buttoned ends, the seat with squab-cushion covered in green silk, above a reeded seat-rail with raised central panel and on dolphin supports, joined by a stretcher with two further reeded central legs, regilt, the central legs possibly later

细节
A REGENCY SIMULATED MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT WINDOW SEAT after a design by Thomas Sheraton, with twin lion-mask headed scrolled end-supports and padded buttoned ends, the seat with squab-cushion covered in green silk, above a reeded seat-rail with raised central panel and on dolphin supports, joined by a stretcher with two further reeded central legs, regilt, the central legs possibly later
46in. (117cm.) wide; 36in. (91.5cm.) high; 29½in. (75cm.) deep

拍品专文

Designed in the early 19th century 'antique' manner promoted by the Society of Dilettanti, whose promotion of James Stuart's study of Grecian architecture resulted in the publication The Antiquities of Athens, 1762-95, and introduced dolphins as part of the festive bacchic repertoire. The reed-bound sporting dolphins and long-maned bacchic lion-heads derive from furniture patterns published by Thomas Sheraton comprising a stool in his Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, and a Grecian Bed in the Cabinet Encyclopedia, 1804-6.