拍品 829
829
Queen Mary's dressing table An Edwardian painted satinwood dressing table (coiffeuse)
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Queen Mary's dressing table An Edwardian painted satinwood dressing table (coiffeuse)

BY JOHN WATSON, CIRCA 1910

細節
Queen Mary's dressing table
An Edwardian painted satinwood dressing table (coiffeuse)
By John Watson, Circa 1910
Decorated with ribbon-tied medallions and floral-swags, the hinged top enclosing a mirror and open compartments above a frieze drawer, the drawer stamped 'John Watson, 8 New Oxford St. W.C.' the compartment frame stamped 'V.M. Princess of Wales', the underside stamped with the initial 'M' below a crown, also with a printed Private Property paper label for Queen Mary and with the remains of a paper label inscribed in ink 'The .... Victoria Mary', with a later paper property label for Princess Margaret
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 31½ in. (80 cm.) wide; 16¾ in. (42.5cm.) deep
來源
H.M. Queen Mary (1867-1953), when Victoria Mary, Princess of Wales and later branded when Queen Mary.
注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

Garlands wreath the ormolu-enriched dressing-table, which is elegantly serpentined in the George III 'French' fashion of the 1770s; while its hinged top displays beribboned grisaille flanking painted medallions that celebrate the Arts and Sciences, with laurelled trophies of musical instruments beside a youthful book-studying genius of the Art of Music.
The fashion for such flowered and medallion-decorated furniture was revived in 1870 by the South Kensington Museum's acquisition of a related and richly painted dressing-table (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1982, U/11). The present table bears the brand of the New Oxford Street establishment of John Watson, who also retailed a related bureau-dressing-table that was inspired by the 'Tambour writing Table' pattern, issued in Thomas Shearer's, Cabinet-maker's London Book of Prices, 1788 (pl.14), sold Christie's Paris, 5 November 2003, Lot 831.