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A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
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Each with fretwork back centered by a foliate cross and similarly fretted arms, seats covered in tapestry worked with a basket of flowers, on straight molded legs joined by stretchers

來源

Probably supplied to Sir Monnoux Cope, 7th Bart of Hanwell and Bramshill (d. 1763) for the Long Gallery at Bramshill, Hampshire (a set of six).
Thence by descent until sold by Captain Denzil Cope, 'Superb Chippendale Furniture...from Bramshill Park', Sotheby & Co., London, 13 March 1931, lot 119 (£1,080 to the dealers Pawsey and Payne) (one chair illustrated).
Pawsey and Payne, London.
From the Marion E. and Leonard A. Cohn Collection.
Gift of Marion E. Cohn, 1950.

出版

'Bramshill Park, Hampshire', Country Life, 11 July 1903, p. 55 (shown in situ in the Long Gallery).
C. Hussey, 'Bramshill III', Country Life, 16 June 1923, p. 857, fig. 9 (shown in situ in the Chapel Room).
P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1924, vol. I, p. 247, fig. 126.
H.A. Tipping, English Homes, period III, vol. II, 1927, p. 299, fig. 377 (shown in situ in the Chapel Room).
C. Hussey, 'The Fate of Bramshill', Country Life, 17 August 1935, p. 172, fig. 8 (shown in situ in the Chapel Room).
R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. I, p. 285, fig. 185.
P. Remington, 'The Galleries of European Decorative Arts and Period Rooms', Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, November 1954, pp. 69, 117 (illustrated).
A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, New York, 1968, pl. 132.
F. L. Hinckley, A Directory of Queen Anne, Early Georgian and Chippendale Furniture, New York, 1971, p. 183, fig. 316.
E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. II, New York, 1985, pp. 743, no. 134.
F. L. Hinckley, Metropolitan Furniture of the Georgian Years, New York, 1988, p. 102, pl. 68, fig. 147.
G. Beard, Upholsterers and Interior Furnishings in England 1530-1840, New Haven, 1997, p. 236, pl. 284.

拍品專文

The chairs once formed part of a larger suite at Bramshill in Hampshire which appear first in the Long Gallery and by 1923 were moved to the Chapel Room. Another chair from the suite was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 30 April 2007, lot 69 ($50,400).
Built in 1612, Bramshill was purchased by Sir John Cope in 1699 and remained in the family until sold to Lord Brocket in 1937. The suite may have been supplied to Sir Monnoux Cope, who succeeded as 7th Bart. of Hanwell and Bramshill in 1749 and appears to have set about refurbishing at this date. Cope may have patronized the Berkeley Square cabinet-maker William Linnell (d. 1765) as a pair of mirrors from Bramshill and now at Eversly Manor are particularly close to a drawing by John Linnell at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. I, p. 77 and vol. II, p. 98, fig. 187).
A suite of 'gothic' seat furniture from the Chapel Room of Bramshill with cluster-column legs and needlework covers includes a pair most recently sold Christie's, New York, 16 April 1994, lot 156, while a pair of stools sold from the Estate of Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Sotheby's, New York, 23 April 1999, lot 119.
A pair of early Georgian giltwood wall sconces also from the Chapel Room descended in the Cope family and were part of Judge Untermyer's gift to the Museum in 1964 where they are now on view (Y. Hackenbroch, pl. 155, fig. 187).

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