A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER COFFER ON A GEORGE II GILTWOOD STAND
A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER COFFER ON A GEORGE II GILTWOOD STAND
A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER COFFER ON A GEORGE II GILTWOOD STAND
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A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER COFFER ON A GEORGE II GILTWOOD STAND
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A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER COFFER ON A GEORGE II GILTWOOD STAND

CIRCA 1730

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A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER COFFER ON A GEORGE II GILTWOOD STAND
CIRCA 1730
The rectangular hinged top and case decorated with pagodas and buildings within a mountain and river landscape, the stand centered by a stylized shell and raised on spread-winged eagles and previously but possibly not originally with a black and gilt decorative scheme
36 ½ in. (92.7 cm.) high, 60 in. (152.4 cm.) wide, 26 in. (66 cm.) deep
來源
Possibly supplied to the 2nd Duke of Manchester for Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire;
Thence by descent to the 10th Duke, sold Messrs. Knight, Frank & Rutley, 18-21 July 1949, lot 310.
With Mallett, London.
Supplied by Parish-Hadley, New York, to Ann and Gordon Getty in 1977.
出版
'Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, a Seat of the Duke of Manchester, Country Life, 23 September 1911, pp. 440-448 (Part I) and 30 September 1911, pp. 474-486 (Part II).
H.A. Tipping and C. Hussey, English Homes, Period IV - Vol. II, 1699-1736, Country Life, London, 1928, pp. 113-118.
F. Lenygon, Furniture in England from 1660-1760, London, 1914, p. 202, fig. 422.
L. Synge, Mallett's Great English Furniture, Boston, 1991, p. 68, fig. 65.

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Nathalie Ferneau
Nathalie Ferneau Head of Sale, Junior Specialist

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Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, a medieval home, was the final residence of the Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII and daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. She died there in 1536. In 1683, the house came into the possession of Charles Montagu, 4th Earl and later 1st Duke of Manchester, as descended from his grandfather, Sir Henry Montagu. Under the direction of Sir John Vanburgh, the house was remodelled in the current fashion of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Vanburgh, with whom Montagu appears to have had a strong friendship and active correspondence, was also responsible for the remodeling of Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace (Country Life, 23 September 1911, pp. 440-448 and 30 September 1911, pp. 474-486). A photograph of this coffer-on-stand in situ at Kimbolton Castle is published in Country Life in 1911, where the stand is shown with its previous but probably not original black and gilt decorative scheme. The shell motif carved to the center of the stand echoes the exuberant Baroque carved shell mantle-piece in the Saloon at Kimbolton, and seen repeatedly throughout the castle, carved into a suite of Venetian seat-furniture c. 1708 and adorning the staircase ceiling completed around 1711 (see: ibid., pp. 477-478).

A Japanese Export black and gilt lacquer coffer, on a very similar giltwood stand carved with vigorously carved winged griffins rather than dragons, which also rest on naturalistic rock bases, and with the same scrolled foliate back feet is in the collection at Belton House, Lincolnshire [NT 434832].

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