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拍品專文
This wing chair has extraordinary history taking its place within two of the 20th century's most prominent English furniture collections, and appears in publications on the subject.
PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS (d. 1938)
The collection formed by Percival D. Griffiths, F.S.A. under the wise counsel of the furniture historian R. W. Symonds, is considered to be the greatest collection of English Furniture formed in the last century. Indeed, it was Griffiths' collection that provided the content for Symonds' seminal work English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929. The interiors at Sandridgebury are happily recalled in Symonds's article in Antiques, March 1931, pp. 193-196 where the chair appears prominently in a view of the Drawing Room (fronticepiece). Griffith's collection has come to be recognized as a benchmark of excellence, in the arena of collecting early to mid-18th century walnut and mahogany furniture as discussed by E. Lennox-Boyd, 'Introduction: Collecting in the Symonds Tradition', Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, pp. 12-31.
JUDGE IRWIN UNTERMYER (d. 1973)
A number of fine examples from Judge Irwin Untermyer's celebrated collection of 18th century decorative arts are currently on view in the English galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. For some twenty years he served on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Board of Trustees, and his munificence as one of the Museum's greatest benefactors was recorded by its President Douglas Dillon in the Museum's catalogue Highlights of the Untermyer Collection of English and Continental Decorative Arts, 1977.
PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS (d. 1938)
The collection formed by Percival D. Griffiths, F.S.A. under the wise counsel of the furniture historian R. W. Symonds, is considered to be the greatest collection of English Furniture formed in the last century. Indeed, it was Griffiths' collection that provided the content for Symonds' seminal work English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929. The interiors at Sandridgebury are happily recalled in Symonds's article in Antiques, March 1931, pp. 193-196 where the chair appears prominently in a view of the Drawing Room (fronticepiece). Griffith's collection has come to be recognized as a benchmark of excellence, in the arena of collecting early to mid-18th century walnut and mahogany furniture as discussed by E. Lennox-Boyd, 'Introduction: Collecting in the Symonds Tradition', Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, pp. 12-31.
JUDGE IRWIN UNTERMYER (d. 1973)
A number of fine examples from Judge Irwin Untermyer's celebrated collection of 18th century decorative arts are currently on view in the English galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. For some twenty years he served on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Board of Trustees, and his munificence as one of the Museum's greatest benefactors was recorded by its President Douglas Dillon in the Museum's catalogue Highlights of the Untermyer Collection of English and Continental Decorative Arts, 1977.