CIRCA 1755-60, POSSIBLY IRISH

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AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRIPLE-CHAIRBACK SETTEE
CIRCA 1755-60, POSSIBLY IRISH
Each chairback with an acanthus-carved shaped toprail above a pierced vertical splat, the outcurved arms with scrolled eagle heads on acanthus-carved supports, flanking a padded seat covered in yellow damask, on square chamferred legs with blind fretwork joined by pierced H-shaped stretchers, leather casters, stamped '7840' on the underside
76 in. (193 cm.) wide

來源

Originally part of a larger suite including at least two armchairs and twelve side chairs, possibly supplied to Sir Monnoux Cope, 7th Bt. of Hanwell and Bramshill (d. 1763) for Bramshill Park, Hampshire or by descent in Ireland to Sir William Cope, 12th Bt. (1811-1892) who succeeded his distant cousin Sir John Cope, 11th Bt. in 1851.
Thence by descent until sold by Captain Denzil Cope, 'Superb Chippendale Furniture...from Bramshill Park', Sotheby & Co., London, 13 March 1931, lot 120 (£2,800 to the London dealer J. M. Botibol) (the settee illustrated).
Purchased from French and Co., Inc., New York, 1933.

出版

C. Hussey, 'Mirrors and Georgian Furniture at Bramshill', Country Life, 2 June 1923, p. 801, fig. 10.
P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1927, vol. III, p. 96, fig. 34.
R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., Woodbridge, 1954, vol. III, p. 85, fig. 36.
R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 451, fig. 27.

LITERATURE FOR THE SUITE
Anon., 'Bramshill Park, Hampshire', Country Life, 11 July 1903, p. 54 (chairs shown in situ in the Chapel Room).
C. Latham, In English Homes, London, 1909, vol. I, p. 18 (chairs shown in situ in the Chapel Room at Bramshill).
C. Hussey, 'Bramshill, Hampshire - III', Country Life, 16 June 1923, p. 857, fig. 10 (a chair shown in situ in the Chapel Room).

注意事項

No sales tax is due on the purchase price of this lot if it is picked up or delivered in the State of New York.

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拍品專文

The settee forms part of a larger suite that may have been supplied to Sir Monnoux Cope, 7th baronet of Hanwell and Bramshill (d. 1763) for Bramshill Park, Hampshire. Cope, who succeeded as 7th baronet in 1749, appears to have been refurbishing at the time of his accession given the other furnishings from Bramshill of the same date. For instance, Cope may have patronized the Berkeley Square cabinet-maker William Linnell (d. 1765) as a pair of mirrors from Bramshill and now at Eversly Manor are particularly close to a drawing by John Linnell at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. I, p. 77 and vol. II, p. 98, fig. 187). A suite of 'gothic' style seat furniture from the Chapel Room at Bramshill features cluster-column legs and needlework covering. Two of the six side chairs from this suite were most recently sold at Christie's, New York, 16 April 1994, lot 156; while a pair of stools sold from the Estate of Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Sotheby's, New York, 23 April 1999, lot 119. A further set of six armchairs with Soho tapesty - one of which is being offered as lot 69 in this sale - was also sold in the 1931 sale, lot 119 (see P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1927, vol. I, fig. 126).

Another possibility is that the present settee (and the suite to which it belongs) came from Ireland. Two sons of the 1st baronet, Sir Anthony Cope (1549-1615) settled in Ireland, and a descendant of one of them, William Henry Cope (1811-1892) succeeded as 12th baronet in 1851 when his distant cousin Sir John Cope, 11th baronet died. To add weight to this theory is the fact that the design of the back is a variation of a popular form in Ireland. The arms have scrolled eagle's heads which is another Irish feature, as are the pierced fret stretchers (see The Knight of Glin and J. Peill, Irish Furniture, New Haven and London, 2007, pp. 107, 135, 211, figs. 136, 182, cat. 30).

When the suite was sold by Captain Denzil Cope (later 14th baronet) in 1931, it comprised the single settee, a pair of armchairs and twelve 'single' chairs. Built in 1612, Bramshill was purchased by Sir John Cope, 6th baronet in 1699 and remained in the family until sold to Lord Brocket in 1937.