CIRCA 1820

细节

A PAIR OF GEORGE IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINETS
CIRCA 1820
Each with inverted breakfront rectangular grey and white marble top above a rosewood veneer-lined frieze drawer with reeded panel ending in scrolled anthemia, flanked by panels enclosing Apollo above a panelled door enclosing three rosewood veneer-lined drawers, between conforming panelled uprights, on a plinth base, the underside of the marbles inscribed 'N 1' and 'N 2' respectively
35¼ in. (85.5 cm.) high; 26½ in. (67.5 cm.) wide; 14½ in. (36.5 cm.) deep (2)

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拍品专文

The rosewood commodes, combining the marble-topped pier-table with the book-cabinet, have gilt enrichments in the French antique fashion appropriate for early 19th century Living-Rooms.
The poetry deity Apollo features in golden bas-relief tablets between laurel-wreaths and echinus moulded cornices; while triumphal palms wreath the stepped plinths and flower the Grecian-scrolled tablets of the frieze and pilasters; whose bases and truss-scrolled capitals are further embellished with Roman acanthus.
While their robust architecture reflects the antique fashion promoted by C. Percier and P. F. L. Fontaine's, Recueil de décorations intérieures, 1801; they relate in particular to a pattern for a rosewood Apollo-headed cabinet, with 'embossed ornaments', that was published in the 1813 edition of R. Ackermann's, Repository of Arts, (pl. 22).