ID 1360335
Los 44 | A GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT SETTEE
Schätzwert
$ 120 000 – 180 000
ALMOST CERTAINLY DESIGNED BY WILLIAM KENT AND ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM HALLETT, CIRCA 1735
The crest-rail formed as joined fluted cornucopiae crisply scrolled at the angles, the imbricated sides carved with pendant husks flanking an upholstered back and seat covered in green cut velvet, the armrests with out-scrolled lion's mask terminals, the seat rail with paneled Greek-key frieze hung with floral garland swags centered by scrolled cartouches, the sides similarly swagged, on shaped and waved legs headed by acanthus with imbricated sides, the inscrolled feet on brass castors
43 ¼ in. (109.9 cm.) high, 64 in. (162.6 cm.) wide, 30 in. (76.2 cm.) deep
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied either to Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1697-1759) for Holkham Hall, Norfolk, or to his younger brother Robert Coke (d.1750) for Longford Hall, Derbyshire.
Thence by descent to Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham (1754-1842).
Thence by descent to his son, the Hon. Edward Keppel Coke, Longford Hall, Derbyshire (1824-1889),
Removed from Longford Hall when sold from his estate; Christie's, London, 26 April 1917, lot 86 and described as ‘A settee and four chairs, by William Kent, carved with animals’ heads, festoons of flowers, cornucopiae of fruit, key- and scale-pattern, the carving partly gilt on a painted brown ground’ (the settee and four armchairs, to M. Harris).
With Moss Harris, London.
The Collection of Sir William Lever, Bt., later 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), The Hill, Hampstead;
Until sold by order of the executors, Anderson Galleries, New York, 9-13 February 1926, lot 289 (the settee, to Frank Partridge, Inc.).
The Property of David Style, Esq., Wateringbury Place, Maidstone, Kent; Christie's, London, 1-2 June 1978, lot 571 (the settee and four armchairs).
Acquired by Selim Zilkha through Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., London, from the above sale.
Literature
L. Wood, The Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, New Haven, 2008, vol. I, p. 340, fig. 206.
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, p. 20, figs. 9-10.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
G. Jackson-stops (ed.), The Treasure Houses of Britain, Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting, London, 1985, p. 240.
T. Murdoch (ed.), Noble Households, Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses, Cambridge, 2006.
S. Weber (ed.), William Kent Designing Georgian Britain, New York, 2013, p. 482.
| Material: | Vergoldetes Holz, Naturholz |
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| Historische Ära: | Georgianische Periode |
| Herkunftsort: | England, Nordeuropa, Europa, Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen, Sessel und Stühle |
| Material: | Vergoldetes Holz, Naturholz |
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| Historische Ära: | Georgianische Periode |
| Herkunftsort: | England, Nordeuropa, Europa, Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen, Sessel und Stühle |
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