A LATE VICTORIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED SATINWOOD TESTER BED

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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 1071-1079) HOPTON HALL Hopton Hall and its surrounding estate remained within the Gell family for over 600 years. This is despite the family name having gone through a number of variations. The Gell family has been associated with Derbyshire since the reign of King John, when a Robert Gyll is recorded as a juror at Wirksworth in 1209. An Elizabethan house, Hopton Hall was redesigned in the 18th Century: Venetian windows were installed at the front and the centre crowned by a large pediment. The Chandos-Pole-Gell family sold Hopton after the First World War, and was later purchased by another branch of the Gell family. The estate finally left the family's ownership in the late 1980's when the contents of Hopton Hall were sold at Sotheby's house sale, 5-6 September 1989. THE ADAM REVIVAL The following five lots are typical of the late 19th century fashion for Adam revival furniture and interiors. The leading collector of this type of furniture was William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme who spent much of his collecting life assembling a magnificent group of English furniture. Leverhulme's aim, aided by fellow collectors such as James Orrock and, before him, 1st Lord Tweedmouth, was to establish and popularise the style of English furniture of the last quarter of the 18th century, in particular the Adam style of furniture. Through the study of Antique design, Adam created what was perceived by Leverhulme and his fellow collectors as a 'British' or 'English' style and in so doing had superceded the earlier designs by Thomas Chippendale and Matthias Lock in their use, and in some cases reliance on French rococo designs. This process was mirrored by the popularity in the mid to late 19th century of firms such as Wright and Mansfield 'whose taste and knowledge of the Adams period of decoration was unrivalled' (L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, p. 28 ). Furthermore, the decoration of Thornton Manor at the same time included several 'Adam' rooms, arranged under the direction of the furniture historian and interior designer Percy Macquoid. The attempt was made to re-create an authentic Adam interior, but which in its self-conscious desire to conform to Leverhulme's ideas of Adam period decoration, became a microcosm of Edwardian interior design and an example of the perception of late 18th century English furniture around the turn of the century (for an extensive discussion see Wood, Catalogued Commodes, London, 1994, Introduction, 'Lord Leverhulme and the taste for Adam period furniture', pps. 24-38).

A LATE VICTORIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED SATINWOOD TESTER BED

LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A LATE VICTORIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED SATINWOOD TESTER BED
LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
With ornate painted urns and floral festoons above a simulated drapery-carved cornice decorated with a coat-of-arms bearing the inscription 'NEC TENERI NECIT MIDI', with stiff-leaf capped reeded tapering uprights framed behind by green material with tassled edges, above a later mahogany backboard with white material padding, on square base with block feet and castors, with box spring and mattress and lace net curtains
110 in. (279 cm.) high; 54¾ in. (4 ft. 6 in., 139 cm.) wide; 84¼ in. (214 cm.) long

来源

The Gell Family, Hopton Hall, Wirksworth, Derbyshire; Sotheby's house sale, 5-6 September 1989, lot 1154.

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拍品专文

A similar bed , the Property of Mrs Assheton Smith, was illustrated in P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture; The Age of Satinwood, 1908, fig. 133, p.144. This bed was signed W. Coombes. A William Coombes is recorded working in Load Street, Bewdley, Worcestershire in 1822 (R. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, p. 195.).