ID 1030803
Los 244 | AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY FOUR POSTER BED AND SILK COVERED TESTER
Schätzwert
$ 20 000 – 30 000
POSSIBLY BY WRIGHT AND ELWICK, CIRCA 1765
With a pierced scroll-carved cornice covered with later scarlet colored silk damask lined in cream silk, the cluster column front posts interspersed with rope-twist rosettes punctuated by knopped acanthus, with recessed anti-friction steel casters, apparently original
124 in. (315 cm.) high, 85 in. (216 cm.) wide, 88 in. (224 cm.) deep (overall)
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Sir Peter Leicester, 4th Bt. (1732-1770) for Tabley House, Cheshire, by the architect John Carr of York (1723-1807);
By descent until sold from Tabley House by the University of Manchester to benefit the Tabley House Fund; Christie's, London, 16 November 1989, lots 74 and 74A.
Mallett at Bourdon House; Sotheby's, London, 9 March 2007, lot 1064.
Acquired by Ann Getty from the above.
Literature
P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, vol. I, p. 64, fig. 50.
L. Synge, Mallett Millenium, London, 2006, fig. 262.
| Material: | Mahagoni, Naturholz |
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| Historische Ära: | Georgianische Periode |
| Herkunftsort: | Nordeuropa, Europa, Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Kategorie: | Betten |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen |
| Material: | Mahagoni, Naturholz |
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| Historische Ära: | Georgianische Periode |
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| Kategorie: | Betten |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen |
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