拍品 45
45
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY POLESCREEN, the spirally-fluted baluster finial above a turned shaft, the adjustable moulded cartouche-shaped screen carved with rockwork cabochons and C-scrolls and incorporating a Fulham tapestry panel, woven in wools and silks, with a heron by a river bank looking for fishes within a ribbon-tied floral border on a brown ground, the tripod base with fluted shaft above an acanthus-carved bulbous base and egg-and-dart spreading socle, on foliate-carved cabriole legs and claw-and-ball feet

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY POLESCREEN, the spirally-fluted baluster finial above a turned shaft, the adjustable moulded cartouche-shaped screen carved with rockwork cabochons and C-scrolls and incorporating a Fulham tapestry panel, woven in wools and silks, with a heron by a river bank looking for fishes within a ribbon-tied floral border on a brown ground, the tripod base with fluted shaft above an acanthus-carved bulbous base and egg-and-dart spreading socle, on foliate-carved cabriole legs and claw-and-ball feet
58½in. (158.5cm.) high; 25½in. (65cm.) wide

拍品專文

A related screen-panel, of a flower-wreathed landscape with a stork, is illustrated in A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 300 . It is probable that this tapestry is from the same set as that on a set of seat furniture illustrated in H.H. Mulliner, he Decorative Arts in England, London, n.d. [1924], fig. 187