ALMOST CERTAINLY BY JOHN WILLIAMS, EXETER, 1814, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JEFFRY WYATT

细节

A REGENCY GRAINED SOFA
ALMOST CERTAINLY BY JOHN WILLIAMS, EXETER, 1814, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JEFFRY WYATT
With a green loose cover and various cushions on turned legs with brass caps and castors, inscribed to the underside in chalk 'Drawing Room', the cover and cushions not shown in the illustration
36 in. (91 cm.) high; 86 in. (218.5 cm.) wide; 38 in. (96.5 cm) deep

注意事项

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

拍场告示

Please note that this lot is incorrectly numbered as 885 on page 265 of the catalogue.

拍品专文

Almost certainly the 'Large size Grecian Sofa with thick squab in seat, round bolster, cushions -- 12.12.00' recorded on John Williams' invoice to 'His Grace The Duke of Bedford', dated 5 Nov. 1814.

John Williams (d.1819) is recorded in G.Beard and C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, FHS, 1986, as working in the parish of St. Mary Major, Exeter, Devon between 1812-19.

The sofa supplied for Georgiana, Duchess of Bedford's Drawing Room, is designed in the antique fashion with Grecian couch ends. With its robustly turned legs it would have harmonised with the room's central table that was bordered with bobbin-turning in the 'Elizabethan' fashion promoted by the Jeffry Wyatt, Endsleigh's architect.