ALMOST CERTAINLY DESIGNED BY JOHN VARDY

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A GEORGE III CARVED AND GRAINED PINE DOOR ENTABLATURE
Almost certainly designed by John Vardy
The rectangular cornice with moulded top above a band of foliage, egg-and-dart and dentils, the frieze with central scallop-shell flanked by laurel-swagged fruiting acanthus, with egg-and-dart bottom edge
72 in. (183 cm.) wide, maximum; 14 in. (36 cm.) high

Provenance

Supplied to Charles, 5th Duke of Bolton (d.1765) for Hackwood.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954).
Thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

This richly-moulded Hackwood door entablature would have been designed by John Vardy (d.1765) for the 5th Duke of Bolton (d.1765) and has its frieze embellished with the nature goddess Venus's husk-enriched shell emerging from husk-festooned Roman acanthus. In 1765 Vardy had proposed similar ornament for a pedimented doorcase in his watercolour executed for the banqueting room at Spencer House for John, 1st Earl Spencer (J. Friedman, Spencer House, London, 1993, fig. v).

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