Live Auction 7663Fasque The Scottish Seat of the Gladstones
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED SOFA
Lot 140

A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED SOFA

CIRCA 1815, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

Closed7 May 2008

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GBP 8,125

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED SOFA
CIRCA 1815, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS
With reeded frame, lacking squab cushions
90 in. (228.6 cm.) wide

Probably acquired by Sir John Gladstone for Seaforth House, Liverpool.

Specialist note

The Grecian sofa, japanned bronze-black, was designed in the early l9th Century French/antique fashion for the Library; and has golden flowered bas-reliefs embellishing the wave-scrolled volutes on its arms, which are hollowed for a French squab and pillow-cushions. With its reeded ornament, flowered tablets, and scrolled feet, it relates to an 1805 'parlour chair' pattern in Thomas Sheraton's, Cabinet Encyclopaedia, 1808 (pl. 10).