REGENCY! Day 21 of 21.
HOPE! A newly discovered pair of carved & bronzed limewood griffin wall lights, c 1802. Designed by the English Regency designer, Thomas Hope, as part of the furnishings of his grand Robert Adam-designed residence in Duchess Street, London.
Design illustrated plate l.LIII Household Furniture (1807)
Another, THOMAS HOPE Regency Designer. Edited by D Watkin & P Hewat – Jaboor. Catalogue to exhibition, V&A London 2008 pp 430-1.
Another identical pair, retaining original back plates & nozzles, collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (image 6). UK origin c 1802.
31cm x 18cm x 27cm high.
SOLD
Pair of Thomas Hope wall lights c 1802
George IV rosewood drawing room cabinet c 1820
REGENCY! Day 20 of 21
Regency mahogany dumb waiter c 1815
REGENCY! Day 19 of 21
What could be more pleasant than this Regency revolving dumb waiter, between your pair of armchairs, loaded with a nice bottle of wine, glasses, snacks, cheese, the fire going & a juicy book each? Made of lovely heavy Cuban mahogany, nicely turned, on sabre legs, with a terrific patina & nice original condition.
65cm x 88cm high
UK origin c 1815
PRICE inc GS $1,500
Regency Zoomorphic Armchair c 1805
REGENCY! Day 18 of 21
A rare English Regency period drawing room armchair, carved with lion heads to the arms and seat rails, on zoomorphic legs. With original penwork decoration and lacquered brass mounts
Bronzed & gilt carved beech, original horse hair stitched upholstery base.
From a design by Thomas Sheraton published in his Cabinet Maker & Upholsterer’s Drawing Book, London, 1802.
62cm x 64cm x 87cm high
UK origin c 1805
PRICE inc GST SOLD
Regency sterling silver coffee pot on original stand c 1815
REGENCY! Day 16 of 21
A magnificent English Regency period sterling silver London made coffee pot on original stand, by William Edwards of London, 1815.
The stand with cast lion paw feet and richly gadrooned borders with clam shells and acanthus. The coffee pot with ribbed body and similarly cast rim. Mint original condition.
Made in 1815, the year of England’s Victory over Napoleon at Waterloo, for drinking the French preferred drink, coffee.
Other members of the family were to migrate to Australia in 1857, producing some of the finest examples of gold & silversmithing Australiana of the 19th century.
Height 24cm
UK origin c 1815
Regency library mantel clock c 1810
REGENCY! Day 15 of 21/.
Pair of Anglo Indian silver muffineers c 1810
REGENCY! Day 14 of 21
A pair of Anglo Indian silver muffineers (salt & pepper pots for your morning muffins)
by David Hare of Calcutta c 1815
12cm high
PRICE inc GST $950 / pair
Tasmanian Colonial period cedar & casuarina secretaire bookcase c 1825
REGENCY! Day 13 of 21
The Abbott family of Hobart cedar and casuarina secretaire bookcase c 1825
Original to Hendrewen, 326 Macquarie St Hobart.
One of only three known Tasmanian Colonial period pre 1830s secretaire bookcases, of grand proportions, crossbanded in ribbon grain Australian cedar & Tasmanian casuarina (beefwood), the original fitted interior secretaire veneered with casuarina & Huon pine & whale bone knobs. With secondaries of King William pine & original blackwood knobs, turned feet & interior trays The bookcase with ‘Edinburgh margin light’ glazing, the pediment finely crossbanded.
The base with matching cedar crossbanding to the doors, and ‘Edinburgh reel decorated sunk field drawer fronts crossbanded in casuarina.
A related example by the same unknown Scottish cabinet maker in The National Gallery of Australia, another in the Morris Collection, Sydney.
SOLD
Beggars Opera playbill 1816
REGENCY! Day 12 of 21
The Beggars’ Opera.
original Advertising playbill, Drury Lane Theatre London, 1816. A survivor of an ordinary stick up poster from the Regency period.
274mm x 160.
SOLD
The Beggars’ Opera was written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Pepusch.
Instead of the grand music and themes of opera, the work uses familiar tunes and characters that were ordinary people, hence the name. It cheerfully nicked songs by opera composers like Handel using only the catchiest & most popular of these. The audience could hum or sing along with the music and identify with the characters. The story satirised politics, poverty and injustice, focusing on the theme of corruption at all levels of society.
It was the favourite opera of the 18th & early nineteenth centuries.
REGENCY! 21 examples of Regency furniture & decorative arts, (mixed with a little architecture!), to please, tease & titillate, revealed over 21 days.
2020 marks the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, and the 200th of the Prince Regent becoming King.
Regency design was produced in times of war, for pleasure.
All items for sale.
Opening hours are necessarily restricted at the minute, phone on 0439 990 854
Please dont hesitate to ask for extra images etc.
Stay clean, healthy & happy.
Wedgwood Rosso Antico vase c 1805
REGENCY! Day 11 of 21,
Wedgwood rosso antico red unglazed dry body stoneware ‘Egyptian’ vase, with black basaltes decoration of Aswan lions, Nile crocodiles, winged Horus & Anubis.
Another in the Wedgwood Museum, UK.
impressed mark
Size 290mm x 140mm