LATE 18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE

细节

A GEORGE III TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
LATE 18th Century, attributed to Mayhew and Ince
The oval top veneered with a fan medallion centred with a lion's mask, above two frieze drawers, on square tapering legs, each drawer with a printed paper label inscribed 'a Sheraton oval table of oak, inlaid kingwood, and satinwood, with satyr mask, two drawers on tapered legs. From Brocket Hall, Hatfield.', distressed
25 in. (63.5 cm.) high; 32¼ in. ( 82 cm.) wide; 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) deep

来源

Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne (1745-1828) and by descent to
The Hon. Emily Lamb (1787-1869), Countess Cowper and subsequently Viscountess Palmerston, and by descent to her grandson
Francis, 6th Earl Cowper (d.1905) and by descent to his son-in-law
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, G.C.B.
by whom sold at the Brocket Hall sale, Herfordshire, Messrs Foster, 7-12 March, 1923, lot 452'a'
where presumably bought by either King George V or Queen Mary.

注意事项

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拍品专文

This elegant oval-medallion table with herm-tapered legs is designed in the George III Roman fashion and reflects the fashionable form of drawing-room sofa/writing-table of the 1770s. Its golden ribbon-banded top evokes lyric poetry with tablet’ parquetry framing a festive bacchic lion head displayed in a pearled Venus-shelled cartouche that is festooned with Apollo’s laurels.

Amongst related tables is one at Badminton House, Gloucestershire, that the Dowager Duchess of Beaufort is likely to have commissioned from the celebrated Golden Square firm of Messrs John Mayhew and William Ince from the late 1770s (L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes , London, 1994, p.231. Figs, 218-9). Mayhew and Ince have also been credited with the manufacture of two commodes with the same lion and shell marquetry. They also feature some of the latter table’s marquetry ornament ( formerly in the London collection of the 1st Lord Leverhulme and sold Knight, Frank and Rutley, 19th-23rd October, 1925, lot 779).