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拍品专文
These two 'French' pattern settees conform to known suites from Powis Castle in Wales, Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire and Hackwood Park in Hampshire. The Powis suite, with gilt-enrichments, may have been commissioned in the 1750s by Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (d. 1772) for either Powis or Oakly Park, Shropshire as part of his improvements to both properties (M. Hall, 'Powis Castle', Country Life, 21 October 1993, p. 81, figs. 5 & 6). An identical settee, perhaps one of these two, appears in a 1936 photograph of the recently incarnated Oak Drawing Room at Powis (M. Hall, 'Furniture of Artistic Character': Watts and Company as House Furnishers, 1874-1907', Furniture History, 1996, p. 196, fig. 11). A pair of armchairs from the suite was sold, the property of a Lady, Christie's, London, 29 November 2001, lot 98 (£32,900).
The same model from Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, may allow an attribution to cabinet-makers Wright and Elwick, who supplied much of the furniture for the house (see E. Lennox-Boyd, 'The Wentworth Cabinet-Maker: Wright and Elwick', the Wentworth Sale Catalogue, 8 July 1998, pp. 110-112). A set of eight side chairs of this model was sold from Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, Christie's, London, 11 July 1948, lot 62, and possibly the same set was sold by the Hon. Mrs. Brian Rootes, Christie's, London, 8 February 1973, lot 103.
The Hackwood Park suite was almost certainly supplied to Charles Powlett, 5th Duke of Bolton (d. 1765) for Hackwood Park, Hampshire or the Bolton's London house in Grosvenor Square. A pair of side chairs and a single side chair were sold by the Estate of the 2nd Viscount Camrose, Hackwood Park, Hampshire, Christie's house sale, 20-22 April 1998, lots 119 (£43,300) and 120 (£7,475). A stool, thought to have originated from Bolton Hall, Yorkshire, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 8 July 1999, lot 61.
The same model from Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, may allow an attribution to cabinet-makers Wright and Elwick, who supplied much of the furniture for the house (see E. Lennox-Boyd, 'The Wentworth Cabinet-Maker: Wright and Elwick', the Wentworth Sale Catalogue, 8 July 1998, pp. 110-112). A set of eight side chairs of this model was sold from Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, Christie's, London, 11 July 1948, lot 62, and possibly the same set was sold by the Hon. Mrs. Brian Rootes, Christie's, London, 8 February 1973, lot 103.
The Hackwood Park suite was almost certainly supplied to Charles Powlett, 5th Duke of Bolton (d. 1765) for Hackwood Park, Hampshire or the Bolton's London house in Grosvenor Square. A pair of side chairs and a single side chair were sold by the Estate of the 2nd Viscount Camrose, Hackwood Park, Hampshire, Christie's house sale, 20-22 April 1998, lots 119 (£43,300) and 120 (£7,475). A stool, thought to have originated from Bolton Hall, Yorkshire, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 8 July 1999, lot 61.