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A GEORGE III PINE, PART-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DOORCASE designed by Robert Adam, the double-panelled twin doors with egg-and-dart edges, the architrave carved with an inner border of lotus-leaf and a moulded outer border of leaf-filled strapwork, the frieze with swags of laurel suspended from ribbon-ties and filled with martial trophies, below a further frieze of palmettes and flanked by fluted half-columns with composite Ionic capitals, previously decorated and with some later structural supports, previously with pediment

細節
A GEORGE III PINE, PART-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DOORCASE designed by Robert Adam, the double-panelled twin doors with egg-and-dart edges, the architrave carved with an inner border of lotus-leaf and a moulded outer border of leaf-filled strapwork, the frieze with swags of laurel suspended from ribbon-ties and filled with martial trophies, below a further frieze of palmettes and flanked by fluted half-columns with composite Ionic capitals, previously decorated and with some later structural supports, previously with pediment
the doors: 88in. (233.5cm.) high; 41½in. (105cm.) wide
overall: 122in. (309cm.) high; 87in. (211cm.) wide
來源
Sir Lawrence Dundas', The Saloon of 19 Arlington Street, London

拍品專文

This Ionic-columned door, with Grecian palmette-enriched entablature inspired by the Erechteion order illustrated in James Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, 1762, was designed in 1764 by the architect Robert Adam (d. 1792) for the Saloon of Sir Lawrence Dundas's house in Arlington Street, London (see: A. T. Bolton, The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, London, 1922, vol. II, p. 295). Its festive frieze, with ribbon-tied acanthus-husks festooning armorial trophies and sacrificial instruments evolved from Adam's scheme for the Drawing Rooms doors at Syon House, Middlesex, and which was later illustrated in his Works in Architecture, 1773 (see: G. Jackson-Stops, 'Syon Park, Middlesex, Country Life, 16 April 1992, p. 97)