A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD AND GREEN AND BLACK SCAGLIOLA MARBLE SECRETAIRE-BOOKCASE

CIRCA 1815, SIGNED THOMAS, FISHER STREET, RED LION STREET

細節

A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD AND GREEN AND BLACK SCAGLIOLA MARBLE SECRETAIRE-BOOKCASE
Circa 1815, signed Thomas, Fisher Street, Red Lion Street
The inverted breakfront cornice above a pair of glazed doors enclosing three adjustable shelves, with blue silk-backed interior, above a cantilevered rising secretaire, with leather bookspines backing the fall-front desk, enclosing a hinged sloping leather writing-surface, and a fitted ebony-inlaid interior with pigeon-holes, small drawers and three hinged boxes with recessed campaign handles and lidded compartments, above a pair of panelled doors flanked by columns and enclosing a pair of further bookspine-backed doors, on a moulded plinth base, the inside of one interior box lid, inscribed in pencil Thomas Fisher Street Red Lion Street
87in. (221cm.)high, 45in. (115.5cm.)wide, 25in. (65cm.)deep

來源

Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 8 July 1999, lot 135.

拍品專文

The cabinet's marble-topped commode, with ormolu-enriched columns, relates to the 'Empire' or 'French antique' style promoted by George Bullock (d. 1818) of London and Liverpool; and by the Paris-trained cabinet-maker S. Jamar, who in 1818 established his Wardour Street manufactory of 'Superb French Cabinet Furniture' (see C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp. 273-280). Its central tablet of Louis Quatorze 'boulle' inlay corresponds to that found on a table bearing the label of the Wardour Street business founded in the early 1820s by the dealer, James Winter (ibid, fig. 1024).
Fisher Street is off High Holborn, next to Red Lion Square, London, and Thomas is a previously unrecorded cabinet-maker.