A GEORGE I BRASS-MOUNTED COROMANDEL-LACQUER COFFER ON A GILT-GESSO STAND
拍品 41THE PROPERTY OF THE MARQUESS OF CHOLMONDELEY, HOUGHTON HALL, NORFOLK
(LOTS 24-42)

A GEORGE I BRASS-MOUNTED COROMANDEL-LACQUER COFFER ON A GILT-GESSO STAND

EARLY 18TH CENTURY,THE LACQUER RE-USED FROM AN EARLIER CHINESE SCREEN

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GBP 18,000

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A GEORGE I BRASS-MOUNTED COROMANDEL-LACQUER COFFER ON A GILT-GESSO STAND
EARLY 18TH CENTURY,THE LACQUER RE-USED FROM AN EARLIER CHINESE SCREEN
The coffer decorated with insized pictures of flower-filled vases, utensils and symbols, with a hinged door, the sides with carrying-handles, the stand with a shaped apron centred by a shell on square hipped legs and scroll feet, the stand re-gessoed and re-gilded over the original gilding, the stand inscribed in blue chalk '1553'.
40 in. (102 cm.) high; 54¼ in. (138 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep

Probably supplied to Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Raynham (1675-1738) and by descent at Raynham until sold as part of The Townshend Heirlooms, Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1921, lot 48.
Acquired by Lord Leverhulme from Moss Harris & Sons on 23 December 1922 for £250.
William, Viscount Leverhulme; sold, The Anderson Galleries, New York, 26 February 1926, lot 278.
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., Trent Park, Hertfordshire, (recorded in the Music Room in July 1939) and by descent.

專家說明

Raynham Hall, the Townshend family's principal seat, is celebrated in the furniture world for its association with the Raynham Chippendale commode which was sold most recently in the French & Co. sale, Christie's, New York, 24 November 1998, lot 60 ($1,487,500).