A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND EBONY-INLAID BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE
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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND EBONY-INLAID BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE

CIRCA 1810

細節
A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND EBONY-INLAID BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE
CIRCA 1810
The moulded cornice above four glazed doors with perpendicular astragals, enclosing three shelves, the lower section with four cupboard panelled door with re-entrant corners, roundels and stylised fleur-de-lys, enclosing a single shelf, on a moulded breakfront plinth, the lock signed 'J. Bramah'
104 in. (264.2 cm.) high; 120 in. (304.8 cm.) wide; 33 in. (84 cm.) deep
來源
Probably acquired by Sir John Gladstone for Seaforth House, Liverpool, and thence by descent
Sold Fasque, The Scottish Seat of The Gladstones, Christie's, London, 7 May 2008, lot 30.
出版
Possibly 1851 Inventory, Dessert Room, 'Bookcase - £4.10.0'
拍場告示
Please note that depth is 33 in. (84 cm.), and not as stated in the printed catalogue

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Celia Harvey
Celia Harvey

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The bookcase is embellished in the French/antique fashion to evoke the triumph of lyric poetry. The tablets of beautifully figured mahogany, sunk in its commodes doors, are flowered by Grecian-black and trefoiled 'Apollo' palms that are tied in wave-scrolled ribbons at the hollowed corners, which are embossed by 'Venus' pearled libation- paterae. Related palm-flowered tablets feature in an 1804 pattern for a mahogany and ebony-inlaid library-table issued in George Smith's, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London 1808 (p. 86). The signature on the lock is that which was used by Bramah from 1798 onwards.

This bookcase was almost certainly acquired by Sir John Gladstone for Seaforth Houseas part of his grand and extravagant alterations, in particular to the Library and Picture Gallery. In October 1817 Anne Gladsone, in a letter to her brother Tom, wrote that her father was spending so much time on altering the house that it should now be called 'Guttling Hall.'

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