AN EARLY VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL BURR-WALNUT, SYCAMORE, HOLLY, BOXWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY OCTAGONAL CENTRE TABLE
25.05.2023 10:00UTC +01:00
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25200GBP £ 25 200
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ID 960887
Lot 121 | AN EARLY VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL BURR-WALNUT, SYCAMORE, HOLLY, BOXWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY OCTAGONAL CENTRE TABLE
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 40 000
BY CRACE & CO., CIRCA 1855, AFTER THE DESIGNS OF A.W.N. PUGIN
The crossbanded and line-inlaid top with foliate marquetry border on canted legs and shaped supports with foliate brackets joined by chamfered peripheral stretchers and a central x-shaped stretcher, the rosette-carved shaped feet on recessed brass 'patent' castors
29 1/4 in. (74.5 cm.) high; 63 1/4 in. (160.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
The Knyfton family, Uphill Manor, Weston-Super-Mare, from the Drawing Room built in 1855, commissioned as a wedding present by Thomas Tutton Knyfton for his second wife, Georgina Colston, and by descent.
The Estate of Miss Edith Marjorie Graves-Knyfton, Uphill Manor, Weston-super-Mare; Greenslade Hunt Fine Art Auctioneers house sale, 10-11 December 1992, lot 758.
Acquired from Jonathan Harris, London.
Literature
M. Aldrich, ‘Marquetry in the Medieval Court: The Octagonal Tables of Pugin and Crace’, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, 2001, pp. 55-56 & 58.
D. Breuer et. al., Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters, London, 2003, pp. 237, 309, cat. no. 183.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
A. Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family: Catalogues of the Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1985, p. 262, cat. nos. 779-81.
J. Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors: From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau, London, 1987, p. 91, fig. 90.
A. Wedgwood, ‘J.G. Crace and A.W.N. Pugin’, ed. M. Aldrich, The Craces: Royal Decorators 1768-1899, Brighton, 1990, pp. 137-145.
C. Wainwright, ‘Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire-II: The Seat of Mr. James Hervey-Bathurst’, Country Life, 20 May 1993, pp. 90-93.
J. Musson, ‘Knebworth House, Hertfordshire: The Home of the Hon. Henry and Mrs. Lytton Cobbold’, Country Life, 24 April 2003, pp. 104-107.
B. Coleman, The Best of British Arts & Crafts, Atglen, PA, 2004, p. 87.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters, 2003, no. 183.
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| Artist: | Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) |
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| Applied technique: | Marquetry |
| Medium: | Burr, Wood, Walnut |
| Art style: | Gothic Revival |
| Historical era: | Victorian period |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
| Artist: | Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) |
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| Applied technique: | Marquetry |
| Medium: | Burr, Wood, Walnut |
| Art style: | Gothic Revival |
| Historical era: | Victorian period |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
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CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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