CIRCA 1800

细节

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY FIRESCREEN
CIRCA 1800
The rising silk-damask banner above splayed legs, the underside stamped with the three Murray stars (mullets) (twice) and with a paper label inscribed '70 D.H.M.'
36½ in. (93 in.) high

来源

Kenwood House, London.
Removed to Scone Palace prior to the auction at Kenwood in 1922.

注意事项

This lot is offered without reserve. No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

Recorded in the Dining Room at Kenwood House, as 'An Empire Fire Screens with movable centre... 2ft. wide 3ft. high', in the 1910 Inventory, Volume 1, p.66, item 543.

This French-fashioned 'cheval screen', with arched 'claws', relates to a pattern in the Grecian or 'antique' manner in George Smith's, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808 (pl. 110). With its ormolu-enriched pillars and pateraed tablets, it relates in particular to manufactures, advertised as 'equal to any made in Paris' and retailed by S. Jamar following his establishment in Wardour Street, Soho, during the second decade of the 19th century (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p.35).
The underside is branded with the three Murray mullets which may have been used as an indentifying device for items at Kenwood House, London.