A PAIR OF GEORGE III WALNUT SIDE TABLES designed by John Vardy and attributed to Thomas Vardy, each with later inset rectangular portor marble top in a gadrooned border above a band of egg-and-dart, the frieze with flowerhead-filled trelliswork above ribbon-and-rosette and centred by a pendant foliate cartouche carved with the arms of The 5th Duke of Bolton, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus carved on a pounced ground bordered by linked-chains, on pierced claw-and-ball feet, variations in the cartouches, one table with two flowerheads replaced, one with restorations to cartouche, the base of the other replaced, minor replacements to angles, the reverse of one cartouche inscribed in pencil dressed Oct 5th 1920 Left-Hand, one reduced in width

The Property of THE LORD BOLTON THE BOLTON TABLES

细节

A PAIR OF GEORGE III WALNUT SIDE TABLES designed by John Vardy and attributed to Thomas Vardy, each with later inset rectangular portor marble top in a gadrooned border above a band of egg-and-dart, the frieze with flowerhead-filled trelliswork above ribbon-and-rosette and centred by a pendant foliate cartouche carved with the arms of The 5th Duke of Bolton, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus carved on a pounced ground bordered by linked-chains, on pierced claw-and-ball feet, variations in the cartouches, one table with two flowerheads replaced, one with restorations to cartouche, the base of the other replaced, minor replacements to angles, the reverse of one cartouche inscribed in pencil dressed Oct 5th 1920 Left-Hand, one reduced in width
62½in. (159cm.) wide; 35in. (89cm.) high; 32½in. (82.5cm.) deep (2)

来源

Supplied to the 5th Duke of Bolton for Hackwood Park, Hampshire, or 32 Grosvenor Square (now 37), London
Thence by descent to the present owner

出版

H. Avary Tipping, English Homes, Period IV, Late Stuart, London, 1929, vol. 1, p. 233, fig. 300, shown in situ in the Entrance Hall, Hackwood Park
A. Coleridge, 'John Vardy and the Hackwood Suite', Connoisseur, January 1962, p. 17, pl. 8
A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, p. 50 and pl. 77

拍品专文

The 'three swords on an escutcheon' coat-of-arms of Charles Powlett, 5th Duke of Bolton (d. 1765) are displayed on a scrolled cartouche of roman foliage on a 'Persian' flowered-trellis ground between mouldings carved with the egg-and-dart 'life-cycle' and festive flowered ribbons beneath a water-gadrooned rom. On the scrolled legs, encircled by guilloche bands or chain bracelets, the claws of the falcon, of the Bolton family crest, emerge from acanthus foliage.

Designed in the 'poetic' manner and Franco-Italian style of John Vardy, 'architect' to King George III's 'Board of Works', these tables were intended to accompany pier glasses displaying his coronet between scrolled pediments above a triumphal-arch of exotic palm-trees. Their design evolved from an engraving for a table in the 'French' manner of Johann Jakob Schubler, published in his Oeuvre by Jermias Wolff in Augusburg, 1738 and interpreted by Thomas Langley as a stand for a chest of drawers, published in Batty Langley, City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, 1740, pl. CLV. Vardy, the author of Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. William Kent, 1744, had access to the 3rd Earl of Burlington's collection of designs by Inigo Jones (d. 1652), which provided the inspiration for his architecture and furniture designs embellished with palm branches. The Duke, who was Lieutenant of the Tower of London 1754-60, bore Queen Charlotte's crown at her coronation in 1761, and these tables were commissioned at the time of this event