A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD SOFAS by Thomas Chippendale, each with guilloche-carved serpentine frame, the back centred by a ribbon-tied laurel roundel flanked by swags, the padded back, arm-rests and squab cushions covered in distressed blue and gold silk, the scrolled arm-supports and seat-rails carved with laurel and on reeded turned tapering legs headed by square blocks, on stepped turned feet carved with laurel and on castors, the lower part of one back leg detached

細節

A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD SOFAS by Thomas Chippendale, each with guilloche-carved serpentine frame, the back centred by a ribbon-tied laurel roundel flanked by swags, the padded back, arm-rests and squab cushions covered in distressed blue and gold silk, the scrolled arm-supports and seat-rails carved with laurel and on reeded turned tapering legs headed by square blocks, on stepped turned feet carved with laurel and on castors, the lower part of one back leg detached
93in. (234cm.) wide; 43in. (110.5cm.) high; 33in. (84cm.) deep (2)

來源

Supplied to Sir Penistone Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne (1748-1819), for the Saloon of Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, circa 1773
Thence by descent to Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, G.C.B., Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, sold Messrs. Foster house sale, 9 March 1923, two of lots 358-361
Acquired at that sale by Sir Charles Nall-Cairn, Bt., 1st Lord Brocket (d.1934)
Thence by descent at Brocket Hall

出版

James Paine, Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, 1783, pl. LVIII
H. Avray Tipping, Country Life, vol. LVIII, 8 July 1925, p. 96
H. Avray Tipping, English Homes, Period VI, London, 1926, vol. I, pp. 19-21, figs. 30-33
C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1926, vol. I, p. 263 and vol. II, pp. 200-201, figs. 364, 366-367

拍品專文

The Brocket Saloon suite was the largest that Chippendale is known to have supplied to any client. Christopher Gilbert has noted (op. cit., vol. I, p. 263) that the suite was 'richly but not extravagantly styled'. Though this is true of the armchairs, it can be suggested that the Brocket sofas are the most successful of the comparable designs, achieving a better balance than, for example, the two supplied to the State Dressing Room at Harewood in 1773 (ibid., vol. II, p. 199). The most closely comparable settees are the Harewood State Dressing Room pair, a pair in the Saloon at Nostell, and a pair in the Royal Collection. The latter are particlualrly closely comparable (ibid., vol. II, p. 201, fig. 365)