拍品 38
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A SET OF SIX REGENCY BRASS-INLAID EBONISED DINING-CHAIRS, each with rectangular toprail with central lotus bud and studded frame, the caned seat on sabre legs, three finials lacking, legs with minor losses, four chairs stamped MN, one chair stamped four times B, one stamped IB, minor variations (6)

细节
A SET OF SIX REGENCY BRASS-INLAID EBONISED DINING-CHAIRS, each with rectangular toprail with central lotus bud and studded frame, the caned seat on sabre legs, three finials lacking, legs with minor losses, four chairs stamped MN, one chair stamped four times B, one stamped IB, minor variations (6)
来源
Supplied to Matthew Robinson Boulton (d. 1842), Tew Park
The late Major Eustace Robb, Tew Park, Oxfordshire, sold Christie's house sale, 27 May 1987, lot 9

拍品专文

A pattern for an Etruscan-black 'drawing-room' chair, embellished in the French manner with brass mounts and inlaid tablet of Grecian-palmettes, and 'Trafalgar' cushioned-seat intended for silk upholstery, was published in Rudolph Ackermann, Repository of Arts, vol. XIV, 1815, pl. 21. The form of its finial-capped back and rails, with spherical studs in the Roman manner, would have derived from armchair patterns illustrated in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pls. 8 and 11.
The chairs may have been designed by the architect Richard Hicks Bridgens (d.1846), who collaborated with George Bullock (d.1818), cabinet-maker of Tenterden Street, London in furnishing Tew Park, Oxford for Matthew Robinson Boulton (d.1842), son of the celebrated Matthew Boulton, the Birmingham industrialist. Their design may well have been intended to harmonise with the Goanese furniture at Tew.