A GERMAN GREEN-PAINTED CAST-IRON BENCH

AFTER A DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL, 19TH CENTURY

细节

A GERMAN GREEN-PAINTED CAST-IRON BENCH
After a design attributed to Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 19th Century
The horizontal pierced splat with a foliate lyre terminating in griffin-heads and flanked by winged putti holding flaming libation dishes and issuing from floral acanthus scrolls, the channelled frame with down and outswept arms terminating in ram's heads, above a barred seat, the X-shaped legs joined by two bars and with foliate scrolling anthemion to the centre, terminating in foliate hoof feet, redecorated
45in. long

来源

Probably Baron and Baronesse van Rijckevorsel, Kromme Nieuwe Gracht 80, Utrecht, bought for the gardens between 1848 and 1875, sold with the estate in 1875 to
Edward Baron van Lynden, Lord of the Cannenburch, and sold with the estate in 1902 to
Algemeene Brandwaarborg Maatschappij, later the Tiel-Utrecht brandverzekering 1811.
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 14 December 1995, lot 176 (£ 5750).

出版

J.W. Niemeyer, Het Huis van de Tiel-Utrecht , Utrecht, 1961, p. 47

拍品专文

The seat is designed in the antique Grecian manner with bacchic ram-headed arms, hoofed feet and arabesque tablets in the back. These display Apollo's lyre attended by libation-pouring cupids, which derive from an antique bas-relief from Trajan's Forum displayed at the Palazzo Aldobrandini and illustrated in G.B. Piranesi's Vasi candelabri, cippi, sarcophaghi, 1778.

This bench is based on the model of the previous lot. The splat decoration was the most favoured of his different designs. An identical splat appears on a chair of this model, designed for the Römische Bäder, Potsdam Park, circa 1835 and illustrated in E. Schmuttermeier, Cast Iron from Central Europe, 1800-1850, Exhibition Catalogue, New York, 1994, p. 93, fig. 7