EARLY 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NORTH EUROPEAN

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY SOFA
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NORTH EUROPEAN
The undulating back with central floral patera, the padded back, arms and bolsters covered in pale blue damask, the scrolled arm supports headed by floral paterae, decorated with acanthus leaves and terminating in rams masks, on crouched legs carved with acanthus, on paw feet, both left legs repaired, the seat without damask, previously with castors
72½ in. (184 cm.) wide

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拍品專文

The couch's acanthus-wrapped frame is enriched with 'Apollo' sunflower paterae, while its 'triclinium' arms rise from bacchic rhyton-horns in a manner derived from Percier and Fontaine's, Recueil de decorations interieures, (1801). Further popularised by T. Hope's, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1870 (pl.18), it appeared on a Grecian bed that is likely to have been executed by Messrs Morel & Hughes to the 6th Duke of Bedford (Christie's sale by Order of the Trustees of the Bedford Estates and Members of the Russell Family, Woburn Abbey, 20 September 2004, lot 23). The couch's palm-wrapped bacchic lion monopodiae derive from Roman/Pompeian candelabra and relate to the 'Apollo' griffin monopodiae featurd in George Smith's sofa pattern in, A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1808.
The timbers used in this sofa's construction suggest it may have been made in Northern Europe. The sofa has a maple back rail and beech side rails, woods which are idigenous to Northern Europe.