A PAIR OF BALTIC PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED SOFAS
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A PAIR OF BALTIC PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED SOFAS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY AND LATER RE-DECORATED

已結束2011年2月8日

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GBP 7,500

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A PAIR OF BALTIC PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED SOFAS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY AND LATER RE-DECORATED
Each with rectangular padded back and drop-in seat re-covered, flanked by down-swept arms carved with lion's masks, on gilt-composition applied anthemion splayed feet
60 in. (152 cm.) wide (2)

專家說明

These sofas were inspired by the French antique fashion popularised by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's, Recueil de décorations interieures, 1801. They relate in particular to the contemporary French-fashioned lyre seats invented by the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d.1832) for his Mayfair mansion/museum and illustrated in his house-guide entitled, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (see pls. XXIV no 2, and XXV no 1).