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拍品專文
This distinctive à l'antique table with scagliola top relates to the work of Dominic Bartoli, who worked first almost exclusively under the direction of architect Robert Adam, and later James Wyatt. It also relates to the oeuvre of the Irish inlayer Pietro Bossi, however the scholar Donald Cameron suggests that much of the work attributed to Bossi can be ascribed to Bartoli, who came to Ireland in 1794 initially to work with Wyatt at Castle Coole ('Scagliola Inlay work: the problems of attribution', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, Irish Georgian Society, 2004, vol. VII). Similar examples tables include a carved and painted side table in the gallery at Syon House (see C. Musgrave, Adam and Hepplewhite and other neoclassical Furniture, 1966, pl. 96), and a pair of tables with Etruscan style scagliola tops and very similar frieze and upper legs sold Christie’s, New York, 24 October 2013, lot 575 ($60,000, including premium).
THE PROVENANCE
William Lever, later 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), the Sunlight Soap magnate, began by collecting English oak followed by 18th century French furniture. By the 1890s he committed himself to forming a collection representative of the best of British art - an endeavor that lasted for the last thirty years of his life. His pursuit of neoclassical English furniture of the late 18th century was virtually unparalleled at the time, but fully evident by the turn-of-the-century at his homes at Thornton Manor, Merseyside and The Hill in Hampstead. Leverhulme's exceptional collection of furniture is only one manifestation of his passion for the English arts that are now largely housed in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, a house museum that he established in Port Sunlight in 1922. The Gallery to this day displays the most exceptional examples of English furniture, needlework, and ceramics among other disciplines. This table was included in the celebrated five-day sale of Leverhulme's vast collections at The Hill following his death, as conducted by Anderson Galleries in February 1926, at which point it was lacking swags.
THE PROVENANCE
William Lever, later 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), the Sunlight Soap magnate, began by collecting English oak followed by 18th century French furniture. By the 1890s he committed himself to forming a collection representative of the best of British art - an endeavor that lasted for the last thirty years of his life. His pursuit of neoclassical English furniture of the late 18th century was virtually unparalleled at the time, but fully evident by the turn-of-the-century at his homes at Thornton Manor, Merseyside and The Hill in Hampstead. Leverhulme's exceptional collection of furniture is only one manifestation of his passion for the English arts that are now largely housed in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, a house museum that he established in Port Sunlight in 1922. The Gallery to this day displays the most exceptional examples of English furniture, needlework, and ceramics among other disciplines. This table was included in the celebrated five-day sale of Leverhulme's vast collections at The Hill following his death, as conducted by Anderson Galleries in February 1926, at which point it was lacking swags.