A GEORGE III BLUE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT TESTER BED

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Los 532 | A GEORGE III BLUE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT TESTER BED
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$ 200 000 – 400 000
A GEORGE III BLUE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT TESTER BED

BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1770

Each of the two front fluted and tapered posts headed by stiff leaf capitals surrounded by egg-and-dart collars on short balusters above guilloche and stiff leaves, the paneled legs with petal-carved molding concealing lignum wood castors; with a stepped two-tier canopy, the lower canopy comprising three sections of frieze, each with swags of laurels on the outer side, the inner side plain; three sections of outer apron with egg-and-dart and beading above anthemia alternating with stiff leaves; four sections of inner apron with stiff leaf molding above tongues; the front inside tongue molding signed in stencil George Burley(?) and also bottom, which could be in an 18th century hand and possibly by one of the gilders; the upper canopy comprising three sections, each with a fluted frieze flanking a central tablet decorated with a central rosette patera hung with drapery swags beneath a gadrooned urn carved with bearded masks issuing bell-husk swags hanging from the mouths, the corners ornamented with rosette paterae and surmounted by later foliate urn finials, the underside carved with flowerhead filled guilloche, the back section only carved on the underside, with old Christie’s stickers, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

142 in. (360.7 cm.) high, 76 in. (193 cm.) wide, 88 in. (223.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Commissioned by Edwin Lascelles for the Blue Stripe Bedroom of Harewood House, Yorkshire.

Thence by descent to George, 7th Earl of Harewood, Harewood House, Yorkshire.

The Property of the Rt. Hon. Earl of Harewood, K.B.E.; Christie's, at Harewood House, Yorkshire, 3 October 1988, lot 198.

Acquired from James Hepworth by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1993.



Literature

C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 204, vol. II, p. 33, fig. 54.

N. Harris, Chippendale, Hong Kong, 1989, pp. 4 & 110-111.



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