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拍品專文
The baronial hall chair is designed in the Antiquarian or Romano-British style, introduced by Inigo Jones in the 17th century and revived in the early 18th century under the guidance of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. Roman foliage issues from the crest's Ionic volutes, while the seat is supported by festive bacchic lions bearing acanthus-festooned rings, and the seat is centred by the shell badge of the goddess Venus.
The mask on the leg is very similar in conception to a chair in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and illustrated in HMSO English Chairs, introduction by Ralph Edwards, London, 1970, plate 58. In the case of the present lot the carving to the legs and the replacement of the foliate-carved corner blocks almost certainly dates from c.1820-30, and relates to the treatment found on chairs produced by Gillows around the same time. It is likely that the repairs to the back edge of the seat and the metal brackets inserted in the joints between the arms and the chair back and seat are of similar date.
A chair of very similar design, sold in 1949 by Norman Adams Ltd, is illustrated in Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p.34 and 35. This chair was then described as Irish. Another was apparently sold by Stair & Co in 1984.
The mask on the leg is very similar in conception to a chair in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and illustrated in HMSO English Chairs, introduction by Ralph Edwards, London, 1970, plate 58. In the case of the present lot the carving to the legs and the replacement of the foliate-carved corner blocks almost certainly dates from c.1820-30, and relates to the treatment found on chairs produced by Gillows around the same time. It is likely that the repairs to the back edge of the seat and the metal brackets inserted in the joints between the arms and the chair back and seat are of similar date.
A chair of very similar design, sold in 1949 by Norman Adams Ltd, is illustrated in Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p.34 and 35. This chair was then described as Irish. Another was apparently sold by Stair & Co in 1984.