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拍品專文
A closely-related sofa and accompanying suite of seat furniture was supplied to Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1697-1759) probably by the Royal cabinet-maker Benjamin Goodison along with the flower-carved and Vitruvian wave-scrolled pier tables he supplied in 1757. The suite features similar imbricated foliate-headed cabriole legs, and one sofa is today in the West Drawing Room of Holkham Hall's 'Grand Apartment' (L. Schmidt et al, Holkham, Munich, 2005, plate VIII, pp. 148-149). The sofa was illustrated in the early 20th century in the Green State Bedroom in F. Lenygon, Furniture in England from 1660-1760, London, 1914, p. 84, fig. 138 and 'T.' [=H. Avray Tipping?], 'Holkham - II. Norfolk', Country Life, 13 June 1908, fig. 2.
The sofa may conceivably have been made by the firm Lenygon & Morant, who were established in Old Burlington Street in 1915 and specialised in furniture in the 18th century style. A pair of giltwood stools of a similar mid-18th century feeling with imbricated legs centred by shells was sold in 'The Legend of Dick Turpin - Part I', Christie's, London, 9 March 2006, lot 73.
The sofa may conceivably have been made by the firm Lenygon & Morant, who were established in Old Burlington Street in 1915 and specialised in furniture in the 18th century style. A pair of giltwood stools of a similar mid-18th century feeling with imbricated legs centred by shells was sold in 'The Legend of Dick Turpin - Part I', Christie's, London, 9 March 2006, lot 73.