Lot Essay
This lit-en-bateau decorated Angus McBean's Empire room at 12 Devonshire Terrace, Brighton between 1948-50 and later at Gibson Square, Islington, 1953-1963.
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FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Details
A FRENCH EMPIRE ORMOLU MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIT-EN-BATEAU
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With scrolled panelled ends mounted with rosettes, seahorses and winged male figures, with a deeply carved side panel centred by a beaded roundel with a mask and crescent and issuing flowering and foliate stems, the seahorse mounts original, the rosettes probably later, and presumably originally with turned top rails.
45½in. (116cm.) high, 57in. (145cm.) wide, 93in. (236cm.) long
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With scrolled panelled ends mounted with rosettes, seahorses and winged male figures, with a deeply carved side panel centred by a beaded roundel with a mask and crescent and issuing flowering and foliate stems, the seahorse mounts original, the rosettes probably later, and presumably originally with turned top rails.
45½in. (116cm.) high, 57in. (145cm.) wide, 93in. (236cm.) long
Literature
'A house of magnificent sets', House and Garden, December 1962, pg.62.
Robin Muir, 'The Legacy of Angus', The World of Interiors, September 2005.
Robin Muir, 'The Legacy of Angus', The World of Interiors, September 2005.
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