拍品 94
拍品 94
PROPERTY FROM THE WELBY FAMILY, ORIGINALLY AT HARLAXTON MANOR AND DENTON MANOR, LINCOLNSHIRE (LOTS 91-97)
A PAIR OF FLEMISH GILT-LACQUERED-BRONZE-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL, WALNUT AND EBONY CABINETS-ON-STAND

MID 17TH CENTURY, THE STANDS 19TH CENTURY

成交价 GBP 6,048
估价
GBP 6,000 - GBP 10,000
Loading details
A PAIR OF FLEMISH GILT-LACQUERED-BRONZE-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL, WALNUT AND EBONY CABINETS-ON-STAND

MID 17TH CENTURY, THE STANDS 19TH CENTURY

成交价 GBP 6,048
成交价 GBP 6,048
详情
Each with rectangular top above an edge with pierced clasps, with an arrangement of eight drawers with ripple-moulded borders surrounding an architectural facade centred by a balustrade-galleried frieze drawer, above a removable niche containing a statue concealing three further drawers, flanked by two Corinthian columns, some losses to mouldings, the sides formerly with handles, on later ebonised stands
5312 in. (136 cm.) high; 41 in. (104 cm.) wide; 1314 in. (34 cm. deep)
来源
Depicted in 1880 in The House Builders by Sir Frank Dicksee, portraying Sir William Welby-Gregory, 4th Bart. and Lady Welby-Gregory;
thence by descent at Denton Manor until 1939;
thence by descent.
特别通告
This lot will be removed to Christie’s Park Royal. Christie’s will inform you if the lot has been sent offsite. Our removal and storage of the lot is subject to the terms and conditions of storage which can be found at Christies.com/storage and our fees for storage are set out in the table below - these will apply whether the lot remains with Christie’s or is removed elsewhere. Please call Christie’s Client Service 24 hours in advance to book a collection time at Christie’s Park Royal. All collections from Christie’s Park Royal will be by pre-booked appointment only. Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060 Email: cscollectionsuk@christies.com. If the lot remains at Christie’s it will be available for collection on any working day 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. Lots are not available for collection at weekends.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
荣誉呈献
Sale EnquiresCollections: London
佳士得专家或会联络阁下,以商讨此拍品,又或于拍品状况于拍卖前有所改变时知会阁下。

拍品专文

This pair of Flemish cabinets are shown in the famous 1880 painting The House Builders by Sir Frank Dicksee, P.R.A. (1853-1928), depicting Sir William Welby-Gregory, fourth baronet (1829-1898), and his wife Victoria, only daughter of the Earl of Wharncliffe. Identifiable with their ebony ripple-moulding, tortoiseshell panels, and brass handles, one of the cabinets is depicted behind Lady Victoria as the couple are shown poring over A.W. (later Sir Arthur) Blomfield's model and drawings for Denton Manor. When the picture was exhibited the house had been in progress a year, and it would be completed four years later.

The dating of the painting before the construction of Denton raises the prospect that these cabinets had been in Harlaxton Manor as the reconstruction of Sir William's family seat was initiated primarily to provide a home for the pictures, furniture and other works of art inherited from his father's cousin, Gregory Gregory of Harlaxton. The picture also indicates that the Flemish cabinets were very much in the personal taste of Lady Victoria, who belonged to the group known as 'The Souls', an aristocratic coterie devoted to intellectual and artistic pursuits and disdainful of the more worldly pleasures indulged in by the Prince of Wales's Marlborough House set. Like Lady Victoria's dress, the furniture and decorative arts in the picture, including the present lot, appeal to cultured aesthetic style preeminent among the Welbys' social set. In front of the Flemish cabinet is an ebony chair of a seventeenth-century Goanese type, generally thought of by the Victorians as 'Elizabethan'. Behind her are an old lacquered cabinet and a large blue porcelain vase, the latter the quintessential symbol of Aesthetic sensibility since Rossetti, Whistler and other trendsetters had pioneered the taste for 'blue-and-white' in the 1860s.

相关文章

Sorry, we are unable to display this content. Please check your connection.

更多来自
藏家尚品:伦敦