A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WINE-COOLER

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… 顯示更多

細節

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WINE-COOLER
The moulded gadrooned circular top with three breakfront sections headed by pearled domed floral rosette paterae and panelled husk trails, the panelled frieze of stylised acanthus-scrolled arabesques above three panels with cut corners and swagged with husk trails hung from rosette paterae in the spandrels, the base section with fluted frieze divided by pearled domed rosette paterae and on baluster acanthus-carved part-fluted legs with pearled collars and acanthus cup and ball feet, with later removable brass liner, the underside with Norman Adams label, two legs with replaced glue-blocks
19¾ in. (50.5 cm.) high; 14¼ in. (36.5 cm.) diameter

來源

Bought from Norman Adams, 24 February 1981.

出版

C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, rev. ed., 1985, pp. 246-247, col. pls. 24a-b, and p. 252 ('Probably the highest quality jardinière that we have handled, this piece bears all the hallmarks of an Adam design ...').

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

The circular wine-bucket or cistern, designed to stand beneath a sideboard-table, is conceived as a Roman tripod altar. Its rim is gadrooned with reeds to recall ancient festivities and the Arcadian deity Pan. Its tablets of fine-figured mahogany are likewise framed by reeds and festooned by laurels that suspend from Apollo's sunflowered libation-paterae in the hollowed corners. The cornice is wreathed by a pearl-string and tablets of wave-scrolled 'rainceaux' of ribbon-tied Roman foliage, while further sunflowered patera embellish the capitals of the projecting and laurel-festooned pilasters. More sunflowers embellish its antique-fluted stand, whose fluted columnar legs are wrapped by triumphal palms and terminate in spherical feet.
Its richly sculpted acanthus possibly reflects the work of a specialist carver such as Sefferin Alken (d.1783) of Golden Square and his son Samuel Alken, author of a pattern-book of arabesque antique foliage entitled A New Book of Ornaments, 1779.
A related wine-cooler, of the same pattern but lacking the husk swags, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 5 July 1991, lot 119.