MID-18TH CENTURY

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A DUTCH BROWN-PAINTED HALL BENCH
MID-18TH CENTURY
With shaped arched pierced foliage and strapwork back and sides centred by a cartouche of a tree flanked by a pair of hounds, on conforming shaped ends joined by a later foliate stretcher, redecorated, traces of gilding
47¾ in. (121.5 cm.) high; 64½ in. (164 cm.) wide; 15½ in. (39.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

By repute The Lords Brownlow, Belton House, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Acquired from Christopher Gibbs, London.

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Lot Essay

The hall seat's greyhound supports celebrate the heraldic achievements of the Brownlow family, later Lords Brownlow, of Belton House, Lincolnshire. These same heraldic supporters were employed on a pair of Kent-revival tables for the Hall at Belton, which remain in situ. Its triumphal-arched back is fretted and filigreed in the Louis Quatorze Roman fashion and an heraldic escutcheon is framed by the flowered volutes of its serpentined and ribbon-scrolled pediment, which is wreathed by Roman acanthus. Its architecture corresponds to that of patterns for stately bed-heads issued around 1700 in the Nouveaux Livre d'Apartement, of the Paris-trained architect Daniel Marot (d.1752). A related seat in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden bears the armorials commemorating the 1706 marriage of Simon Gerrolsma (d.1724) to Anna Mellinga (d.1715) (K. Sluyterman, Huisraad en binnenhuis in Nederland, The Hague, 1947 (2nd. Ed.), p.251. A seat, with similar ribbon-scrolled back, sold Christie's, Amsterdam, 19 September 1999, lot 515.

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