A REGENCY MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE-BREAKFRONT-CABINET

CIRCA 1810, AFTER A DESIGN BY GEORGE SMITH

細節

A REGENCY MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE-BREAKFRONT-CABINET
Circa 1810, after a design by George Smith
The pierced cornice carved with trefoils and foliate-sheathed spires, above a quatrefoil-carved frieze over arched mullioned glazed doors above a case fitted with tracery-carved drawers over arched carved doors, on a plinth base, the locks stamped STRUTS/PATENT over a crown and IMPROVED B. WALTERS
112 in. (284.5 cm.) high, 96 in. (244 cm.) wide, 25½ in. (64 cm.) deep

來源

With Blairman, London, prior to 1965.
Acquired by Ralph Robert Watts Sherman, 6th Baron Camoys, Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Sold by Direction of the Lord Camoys D.L., Phillips on the premises, Stonor Park, 28-29 January 1976, lot 455.
with Devenish, New York.

出版

M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, Country Life, 1965, p. 31, fig. 47. F. Collard , Regency Furniture, Suffolk, 1985, p. 171.

拍品專文

The present cabinet, with its arched paneled doors, fretted quatrefoils and trefoils and spired crockets, is representative of the Gothic fashion promoted around 1800 by George, Prince of Wales, later George IV, the court architect James Wyatt (d. 1813) and the prince's 'Upholder extraordinary', George Smith. Its deisgn directly copies a pattern in Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Decoration of 1808, pl.103.

Smith greatly favored the variety of ornament employed in the Gothic or 'Old English fashion' and offered a vast number of designs in this style. The Gothic aesthetic, with its soaring arches and inherant verticality, was considered particularly effective in large open rooms such as libraries.

Another bookcase of this form was sold in the Cleveden salesrooms, Bristol, 3 May 1990.