CIRCA 1730

細節

A GEORGE II WALNUT BUREAU-ON-STAND
CIRCA 1730
The fall front enclosing an arrangement of drawers and a small cupboard above a fitted writing drawer and further drawer, the stand with frieze drawer and scrolling foliate borders, on cabriole legs carved with lions' masks and acanthus foliage, on paw feet, formerly but not necessarily originally with dressing mirror
35 in. (89 cm.) high, 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide, 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) deep

來源

Henry Hirsch, 23 Park Lane, London; Christie's, London, 10 June 1931, lot 66 (to F. Partridge for £756).
With Frank Partridge, London and New York.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.

出版

P. Macquoid, 'Mr. Henry Hirsch's Furniture - I', Country Life, 25 October 1924, p. 630-631, fig. 1.
P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1927, vol. I, p. 121, fig. 9.
The Four Georges, Loan Exhibition catalogue, London,1931, no. 275, p. 51 (illustrated).
R. Edwards, ed., The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1954, vol. I, p. 131, fig. 18.
Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 228-229, figs. 267- 268 and pp.li, 55.

展覽

London, The Four Georges, Loan Exhibition of Georgian Art arranged by Sir Philip Sassoon at his home, in aid of the Royal Northern Hospital, 1931, no. 275.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Patterns of Collecting, Selected Acquisitions, 1965-1975, 6 December 1975-23 March 1976.

拍品專文

This richly carved bureau is particularly distinguished by its bold base headed by lion masks and pendant acanthus. The 1954 Dictionary entry notes that ‘the proportions and the quality of the burr walnut veneer are remarkable’. An equally ambitious lion-carved example from the Percival Griffiths collection is illustrated as figure 19 in the Dictionary and recently sold Christie’s, London, 23 May 2012, lot 243; another similar is in the public collections at Fairfax House, York (P. Brown, The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture and Clocks, London, 1987, p. 34, no. 34). The Museum retains another Griffiths bureau surmounted by a mirror, also an Untermyer bequest (illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch, fig. 269-270, pl. 230-231).

HENRY HIRSCH

The bureau formed part of the Mayfair collection at 23 Park Lane assembled from 1900 by the connoisseur Henry Hirsch (d. 1931) (see P. Macquoid, 'Mr. Henry Hirsch's Furniture I & II', Country Life, 25 October and 15 November 1924). Macquoid while lauding Henry Hirsch’s taste and accomplishment noted that this lion-carved bureau represented ‘a fashion that was eagerly patronized by such of the aristocracy as laid down the laws of taste toward the end of George I’s reign’.

CIRCA 1730

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