THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS HOPE

细节

A MID-VICTORIAN MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS HOPE
The curved tablet back with strigil fluting centred by a roundel, with reeded bulb finials, the reeded and square section arms above a close-nailed red leather-covered dished seat, on x-frame supports, joined by stretchers, stamped on the underside of the splat 'W. J. MANSELL FULHAM ROAD S6' and further stamped 'S6632'

注意事项

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拍品专文

The chair'’s Roman 'curule' pattern was published by the connoisseur Thomas Hope in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. 20, no. 5), and a chair after this design has been recorded with the early 19th century journeyman's brand of B. Harmer (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, fig. 474).

W. J. Mansell of Fulham Road and Redcliffe Gardens traded as a 'cabinet maker dealer in superior, antique and modern furniture' in the early 20th century. The branded number is likely to be that of Messrs. James Shoolbred & Co. of Tottenham Court Road. They expanded from a small draper business and started to manufacture high quality furniture circa 1870, for which they were given a Royal warrant by the mid-1880s.