拍品专文
Mr and Mrs Melvyn Rollason were passionate collectors of English oak and walnut furniture and early English clocks.
In 1939, they moved to Ludstone Hall in South-East Shropshire, a moated Jacobean manor house for which their collection was especially well suited. Arthur Oswald described the glories of Ludstone in three Country Life articles during January 1952, in the third of which he wrote 'Mr Rollason's collection of furniture has been acquired with the ruling idea of buying what would look best in the house.'.
In 1939, they moved to Ludstone Hall in South-East Shropshire, a moated Jacobean manor house for which their collection was especially well suited. Arthur Oswald described the glories of Ludstone in three Country Life articles during January 1952, in the third of which he wrote 'Mr Rollason's collection of furniture has been acquired with the ruling idea of buying what would look best in the house.'.