拍品 79
79
THE SUMMER DRAWING ROOM FURNITURE
A REGENCY PAINTED TÔLE, PARCEL-GILT AND SIMULATED VERDE ANTICO CABINET, the broken scroll red tôle cornice with splayed corners decorated with Chinese characters, flowerheads and acanthus supported on four double baluster speckled bronzed columns flanking a cupboard with cream tôle door decorated with a parrot perched on a branch with blue fruiting foliage and red flowers framed by a beaded rod and entwined with gilt foliage on a black ground and enclosing two shelves, the sides with red flowerheads and foliage, the base with eared rectangular simulated verde antico top and plinth joined by four baluster columns, the frieze with red and gilt trellis above a pair of red tôle doors, each decorated with Chinese figures, one with a yoke beside a temple, the other with figures around a throne, enclosing ten drawers each decorated in black and gold lacquer with chinoiserie, the sides on red tôle, on later turned feet, adapted (see below)

细节
A REGENCY PAINTED TÔLE, PARCEL-GILT AND SIMULATED VERDE ANTICO CABINET, the broken scroll red tôle cornice with splayed corners decorated with Chinese characters, flowerheads and acanthus supported on four double baluster speckled bronzed columns flanking a cupboard with cream tôle door decorated with a parrot perched on a branch with blue fruiting foliage and red flowers framed by a beaded rod and entwined with gilt foliage on a black ground and enclosing two shelves, the sides with red flowerheads and foliage, the base with eared rectangular simulated verde antico top and plinth joined by four baluster columns, the frieze with red and gilt trellis above a pair of red tôle doors, each decorated with Chinese figures, one with a yoke beside a temple, the other with figures around a throne, enclosing ten drawers each decorated in black and gold lacquer with chinoiserie, the sides on red tôle, on later turned feet, adapted (see below)
45¾in. (116cm.) wide, 82in. (208cm.) high, 16¼in. (41cm.) deep.
出版
John Fowler 'English Painted Furniture', pp.49-54
Apollo Annual, 1951, p.36 (illustrated)

拍品专文

This exotic cabinet typifies the eclectic fashion in the early 19th Century for fusing the antique and oriental styles. The Grecian acroteria-enriched cornice and Pompeian columnettes relate to a Lady's cabinet illustrated in Richard Brown's Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture, 1822, and to a pattern introduced by George Bullock of the Grecian Rooms, Piccadilly, around 1815.
The garden panel with a parrot and butterflies inhabiting a flowering shrub derives from Chinese wall-paper patterns while the gilt oriental landscapes on an iron-red ground relate to wall-paintings introduced about 1817 by the decorative painter Frederick Crace in the Marine Pavilion at Brighton for George, Prince of wales (d.1830) (see: M.Aldrich ed., The Craces: Royal Decorators 1768-1899, Brighton, 1990, fig.3)
Similar polychrome tole panels appear on a group of low side cabinets associated with the Allgood family of Pontypool, of which one was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 5 May 1989, lot 105.