拍品 342
342
A BONE-INLAID TEAK PANEL*
A BONE-INLAID TEAK PANEL*

DATED 1860, BY W. ROBERTS

细节
A BONE-INLAID TEAK PANEL*
Dated 1860, by W. Roberts
Centering a rectangular panel depicting Newlands with a figure in a boat on the water in the foreground and inlaid 'NEWLANDS. 1860,' within outer framing inlaid with oak leaves and acorns with rounded applied edge, the reverse inscribed Done by W. Roberts, Porter, Ruthin Castle, 1860
22 x 27in. (57 x 70cm.)
出版
J. Ayres, Two Hundred Years of English Naive Art 1700-1900, Alexandria, VA, 1996, no. 16, p. 66
展览
See lot 340.

拍品专文

As a porter at Ruthin Castle, it is possible that Roberts used an old draining board and broken knife handles to construct this object. At least one other example of Robert's work is known depicting Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, North Wales (illustrated in J. Ayres, op. cit., p. 67, fig. 17).