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拍品专文
This 'Roman' stool pattern, displaying Venus shells on scale-imbricated trusses terminating in bacchic lion paws, was invented in the mid-1730's to accompany two throne-like armchairs that were supplied for the Withdrawing Room at Hampton Court Palace. Part of the original set of eighteen stools, invoiced in 1736-1737 by the Long Acre chair-maker Henry Williams (d. 1758), remain in situ at Hampton Court while others form part of the Benjamin Disraeli collection at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire (R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, 1955, fig. 217 and The National Trust, Hughenden Manor, 1988). Henry Williams (1717-1758) succeeded Richard Roberts as chairmaker to the Royal Household and in 1736-7 he supplied seat furniture for the Queen's Withdrawing Room at Hampton Court Palace, comprising 2 large armchairs and 24 square stool frames en suite at a cost of £192. At the same time, he supplied four gilt settee frames at a cost of £60 and eighteen square stool frames, also en suite for the Queen's Gallery, for £99 (G. Beard & C. Gilbert, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 980).
This pair of stools may conceivably have been made by the firm Lenygon & Morant, who were established in Old Burlington Street in 1915 and specialised in furniture in the early 18th century style. A pair of giltwood stools of the same model was sold in the The Legend of Dick Turpin - part I, Christie's, London, 9 March 2006, lot 73 (£16,800).
This pair of stools may conceivably have been made by the firm Lenygon & Morant, who were established in Old Burlington Street in 1915 and specialised in furniture in the early 18th century style. A pair of giltwood stools of the same model was sold in the The Legend of Dick Turpin - part I, Christie's, London, 9 March 2006, lot 73 (£16,800).