CIRCA 1825

细节

A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID AND MOUNTED ROSEWOOD WRITING-TABLE**
CIRCA 1825
The rectangular top with green leather-lined writing-surface and floral engraved border, above a pair of frieze drawers centered by a bearded mask, the reverse with conforming decoration, on lyre-shaped end-supports, on later downswept legs joined by a baluster stretcher, brass paw caps and casters
29½ in. (75 cm.) high, 43½ in. (110 cm.) wide, 26¼ in. (67 cm.) deep

来源

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 June 1995, lot 166.

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拍品专文

This elegant table typifies the revived taste for Boulle furniture among English cognoscenti of the 1820's as popularized by such influential collectors as the Prince Regent, later George IV, and William Beckford. The demand for Boulle furniture (or 'Buhl', as it was known) was catered to by a range of antiquarian dealers in London who not only dealt in old furniture but would also adapt 18th century Boulle pieces or even make examples in the Boulle style. Such dealers and cabinet-makers included Louis le Gaigneur who termed himself a 'French Buhl Manufacturer' and worked almost exclusively for George IV and his circle, the firm of Town and Emmanuel of 103 Bond St, 'Manufacturers of Buhl Marqueterie' and Thomas Parker of Air St., Piccadilly, who in 1813 supplied a pair of Boulle marquetry coffers-on-stands to the Prince Regent which remain in the British Royal Collection.

This table in the Louis XIV manner with its central table mounted with the mask of a river god wreathed in fronds, is nearly identical except although executed in contre partie to one illustrated in C. Claxten Stevens and S. Whittington, Eighteenth Century Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, pp. 170-171. This table with its leather top is embellished with spandrels such as on a writing-table exhibited in the Fanfare for Europe, The British Art Market at Christie's, 1973 and illustrated in the Exhibition Catalogue, p. 188, illustrated. Another pair of nearly identical writing-tables with lyre-ends are shown in the Tapestry Room at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire (C. Hussey, English Country Homes, Early Georgian, 1715-1760, London, 1955, p. 71, pl. 95).