ATTRIBUTED TO MARSH & TATHAM

细节

A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND EBONISED WRITING-TABLE
Attributed to Marsh & Tatham
The rounded rectangular top with pierced arched three-quarter brass gallery with blue leather-lined writing-surface above a pair of cedar and mahogany-lined frieze drawers between rounded reeded angles, the reverse with two simulated drawers and each end similarly panelled, on x-frame end-supports headed by leopards heads joined by a turned reeded baluster stretcher, on inward facing paw feet on plinths, with countersunk brass castors, losses to the gallery, the ebonised decoration probably originally bronzed
29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high; 42¼ in. (107.5 cm.) wide; 27¼ in. (69 cm.) deep

来源

Almost certainly supplied to Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury (d.1851), father of the great philanthropist, St. Giles's House, Dorset, and by descent.

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拍品专文

The table trestles of entwined lion monopodia, originally coloured in the Roman manner in trompe l'oiel ancient bronze, correspond to those of a writing-table that is likely to have been designed around 1808 for Southill, Bedfordshire. The latter is likely to have been executed under the direction of Charles Heathcote Tatham (d. 1842), architect and author of Etchings representing Fragments of Antique Grecian and Roman Architectural Ornament, 1806, and supplied by William Marsh and Thomas Tatham (F.J.B. Watson, Southill, A Regency House, London, 1951, fig. 22; P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 262, fig. 54; and G. Jackson-Stops, 'Southill Park', Country Life, 28 April 1994, p. 66, fig. 10).
A related trestle pattern of 1804 featuring inturned monopodia featured in one of George Smith's seat patterns in A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, pl. 51.