A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II STYLE LARGE GILTWOOD BRACKETS

20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL SUPPLIED BY JOHN GILBERT AND DESIGNED BY GEORGE DANCE THE ELDER FOR THE MANSION HOUSE, LONDON

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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II STYLE LARGE GILTWOOD BRACKETS
20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL SUPPLIED BY JOHN GILBERT AND DESIGNED BY GEORGE DANCE THE ELDER FOR THE MANSION HOUSE, LONDON
The shelf supported by carved c-scrolls and floral swags entwined around dragons with open mouths and wings outspread
27 1/4 in. (69 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide, each

來源

With Mallett.
US Private Collection.
With Mallett, New York.
US Private Collection.
With Mallett, New York.

出版

'The Mansion House - I. London', Country Life, 5 November 1932, p. 516, fig. 5; p. 517, fig. 6 (for the comparable brackets).
L. Synge, Mallett Millennium, London, 1999, p. 151, fig. 178
S. Jeffrey, The Mansion House, Chichester, 1993, pp. 174-175 (for the comparable brackets).

展覽

New York, Cooper-Hewitt, Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 7 March-6 July 2008.

更多詳情

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拍品專文

These large and impressively carved giltwood wall brackets are closely modelled on a set of six brackets designed by George Dance the Elder (1695-1768) for the vestibule of the new Mansion House, London. On 20 September 1752, Dance was ordered to present 'a Plan for Lighting the whole House in a proper manner with Drawings for same and an Estimate of the Charge thereof' (S. Jeffrey, The Mansion House, Chichester, 1993, p. 174). Dance drew upon the fashionable Rococo patterns of the period by designer-craftsmen such as Matthias Lock (1710-65), Thomas Johnson (1714-78) and Thomas Chippendale (1718-79) - see a design by Johnson dated 1746 for a 'Contrast bracket to hold a small figure or busto' (J. Simon, 'Thomas Johnson's "The life of the Author", Furniture History, vol. 39, 2003, p. 22, fig. 2), and plate CXXXI in Chippendale's 1754 Director. Dance's brackets, for which a sketch exists, were intended to hold 'portable lights', and in the 1762 inventory these were described as, '6 Stands for Candles for the Vestable'. John Gilbert (1742-84) was a master carver chosen to make the light fittings including the set of six brackets at £15 (£2 10s each); they were completed and installed in the third week of December 1752. The six brackets at the Mansion House are still in situ. In 1991-3 'it was decided that these brackets merited the best possible repair'; their paint was stripped and missing sections were recarved (ibid., p. 281). A pair of George II mahogany brackets of similar scale and related design were sold Metropolitan Museum of Art; Christie's, New York, 27 October 2015, lot 10.

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