CIRCA 1730

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A GEORGE II CARVED PINE DOORWAY
CIRCA 1730
The arched cornice above a carved pediment flanked by fluted pilasters and a paneled door, apparently with minor adaptations, incribed with red museum accession number 41.12, formerly painted
107½ in. (273 cm.) high, 43½ in. (110.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

[By repute] formerly at Richmond House, home of the Dukes of Richmond, Whitehall, London.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1940.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 333, fig. 383.

Sale room notice

Please note the correct overall measurements for the door frame should read:
154 in. (391 cm.) high; 102 3/4 in. (261 cm.) wide
The measurements listed in the catalogue are for the door only, not the frame.

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Lot Essay

Richmond House, once located on the banks of the Thames, was built to the designs of Christopher Wren in the late 17th century. A new mansion was built by the 2nd Duke of Richmond in the 1730s, and the house was thereafter admired for its art as well as its lavish parties, commented upon by Horace Walpole. The house was nearly gutted by a fire in 1791 and was bought by the Crown in 1820 to build Richmond Terrace, a terrace of eight houses (E. B. Chancellor, The Private Palaces of London past and present, London, 1908, pp. 137-142).

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