ID 848361
Lot 211 | A GEORGE III SYCAMORE, HOLLY, AMARANTH, MARQUETRY AND PAINTED FOUR-POSTER BED
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1770
The pierced cornice carved with palmette-filled cusps and with acroteria to the corners and centering each side, the canted square tapering footposts inlaid with trailing flowers and with husks on the angled sides above anthemions highlighted with engraving and staining, on recessed castors, hung with coral and gold fringed pale green slubbed silk lined with pale apricot slubbed silk, with matching coverlet and valance, with mattress and box spring
118 1/2 in. (301 cm.) high; 71 in. (180 cm.) wide; 81 in. (206 cm.) long
Provenance
Acquired by Lord and Lady Weinstock from Mallett, London, probably circa 1971.
Literature
Apollo, December 1970 (Mallett advertisement - illustrated with the same hangings)
L. Synge, Mallett's Great English Furniture, London, 1991, pp. 140-1, fig. 158.
Special notice
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| Applied technique: | Marquetry |
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| Medium: | Wood |
| Historical era: | Georgian period |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Beds |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
| Applied technique: | Marquetry |
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| Medium: | Wood |
| Historical era: | Georgian period |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Beds |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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