EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Details

A REGENCY MAHOGANY, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT DAYBED
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Decorated on both sides, the back, seat, tufted seat-cushion and bolster covered in orange velvet, with a reeded seat-rail, the scrolled foot end with lion masks, the head end with goat-mask terminals, on sabre legs with castors, regilt, one goat-mask reversed
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 84 in. (213.5 cm.) long; 33 in. (84 cm.) deep

Provenance

David Style, Esq., Wateringbury Place, Maidstone, Kent.

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Lot Essay

The collection at Wateringbury Place was the remarkable creation of David Style. John Harris described the collection in the introduction to the Christie's 1978 sale catalogue: 'The compositional result is so idiosyncratic as to defy description. My memory is a kaleidoscopic effect of colour and objects, warm and rich, quirky, full of amusement and flashes of inspirational juxtapositions'. Not all items were selected on purely decorative merit, many pieces were of extraordinary quality: the Italian ormolu and pietra dura cabinet from Hamilton Palace, pieces from Ashburnham Place and Leeds Castle, a suite of Regency furniture by Morel & Hughes from Northumberland House.

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