BY HOLLAND & SONS

細節

A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY BOOKCASES
By Holland & Sons
Each with triangular pediment, above an ogee-frieze and beaded cornice, above a pair of glazed panelled doors, enclosing five adjustable shelves, the lower section with bead-moulded edge above a pair of panelled doors enclosing a shelf, each stamped 'HOLLAND & SONS 9966', one lock stamped 'BARRONS PATENT', previously part of a fitted library
97½ in. (247.5 cm.) high; 45½ in. (115.5 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep (2)

來源

Algernon Rothman.

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍場告示

Provenance: Algernon Rothman.

拍品專文

The handsome temple-pedimented bookcases reflect the Grecian style made fashionable in the early 19th Century by designers such as Henry Whitaker, author of Designs of Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture in the Most Modern Style, 1825; Five Etchings from the Antique, 1827 and The Practical Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Treasury of Designs, 1847. Whitaker assisted the celebrated London firm of Messrs. Holland & Sons with their furnishing of Queen Victoria's Italianate residence at Osborne, Isle of Wight; and the pilasters of these bookcases, with their foliated and reeded pillars, can be related to the ornament of a suite of Osborne chairs supplied by the firm in 1845 (E. T. Joy, English Furniture 1800-1851, London, 1977, p. 150). The bookcases also bear the brand that Messrs. Holland & Sons adopted in the years 1843 to 1846 - all the metalwork, not just the single stamped lock, may have been manufactured at this period by the Strand ironmongers, F.W. Barron & Son.