MAHOGANY TWO-PEDESTAL DINING TABLE - MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS - REVIVAL PEDESTAL DESK - SIX MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
MAHOGANY TWO-PEDESTAL DINING TABLE - MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS - REVIVAL PEDESTAL DESK - SIX MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
A FLORENTINE MOSAIC MARBLE TOP
TABLE, worked with doves and views of Rome in a sample marble border, in-cluding malachite, palfrey, breche violet, onyx, marble, lapiz lazuli, brocatell and langue d’oc marbles, on an English walnut tripod stand, 30 by 19±in; 77.5 by 48.5cm, 1860’s.
A MAHOGANY TWO-PEDESTAL DINING
TABLE with two rounded ends each with tip-tops above a turned tapering column and four reeded outswept legs with brass castors and paw feet with one extra leaf, 30 by 73in; 76 by 186cm, c. 1880.
A LARGE PAIR OF OAK BOOKCASES, the
concave cornices painted with panels of fruit and flowers on a gilt ground, the gothic-glazed doors above a pair of cupboard doors each with nine small fielded panels with incised brass geo-metrie mounts, one with a half-roof above the comice, the other removed, the largest 96 by 54in; 244 by 138.5cm, c. 1870.
A BROADWOOD MARQUETRY OAK BOUDOIR
GRAND PIANO, the iron frame stamped Patent, with ivory accidentais and ebony occidentals, the whole inlaid with stylised flowers, dots and geometrie devices within saw-edged bandings, c. 1880.
Marquetry of a similar feeling was incorporated into a more elaborate design for a piano by Charles Bevan for Titus Sait Junior, at Saltaire in Yorkshire. The piano and a considerable amount of other furniture, including a bed-room suite, was made by the Leeds firm of Marsh and Jones, who started business in the second half of the eighteenth Century, taken over by John Marsh and Edward Jones in 1864. The firm made a considerable amount of furniture very much in the style of Charles Bevan and many pieces attributed to the style of Bevan are possibly made by Marsh and Jones. See High Victorian Furniture: The Example of Marsh and Jones of Leeds, by L. O. Boynton, The Furniture Hutory Society, 1967, including illustrations.
A WALNUT WRITING DESK, the SUper-
structure with a pierced gallery above a central drawer flanked by four short drawers, the crossbanded writing surface inlaid with a leather panel, the frieze with a single oval drawer inset with a porcelain plaque painted with a cherub on cabriole legs applied at the knees with gilt-bronze mounts, 38 by 40iin; 96.5 by 103cm, c. 1860.
A PAIR OF ‘GEORGE III’ MAHOGANY
DINING CHAIRS, with pierced vase splats and drop-in-seats, the cabriole legs ending in claw-and-ball-feet, c. 1880.
A WALNUT AND MARQUETRY SEWING
TABLE with a hinged octagonal top inlaid with a bird and foliage on a turned stem and tripod base, 28 by 16iin; 71 by 42cm, c. 1860.
A SET OF EIGHT MAHOGANY DINING
CHAIRS, including two Armchairs each
with an arched top-rail and pierced
splat the out-curved arms above padded
drop-in seats and square tapering legs.
A ROCKING CRADLE with an arched hood at one end above a rectangular body on curved rockers, 26 by 39in; 66 by 100cm, mid 19th century.
A WALNUT OVAL BREAKFAST TABLE, the
quarter-veneered tip-top inlaid with birds and stylised foliage, the baluster supports on four outswept legs; 70 by 180cm, c. 1870, top and support not formerly together.
A WALNUT AND MARQUETRY SIDE CABINET,
the bow-front inlaid with swags and flowers and inset with a bow-fronted
glazed cupboard door flanked by con-
cave pillars headed by maie masks and flanked in turn by serpentine sides, 45 by 46in; 116 by 117cm, c. 1870.
LORD TENNYSON’S DESK. AN OAK JACO-BEAN REVIVAL PEDESTAL DESK, the rect-
angular leather top with outset corners supported on eight maie and female terms with two short drawers either side, each drawer above a geometrie panelled cupboard, the frieze carved with mannerist birds and foliage, the sides with panels of cherubs and chariots, 31 by 84 by 4lin; 80 by 213.5 by 104cm, incorporating some 17th Century carving, third quarter of the 19th Century.
The present owner’s great-great-grandfather, The Rt Hon. Charles Tennyson d’Eyncourt, P.C., M.P., was, with his brothers and sisters, the last surviving descendant of the last Baron d’Eyncourt, Earl of Scarsdale, whose ancester had been the Standard Bearer to William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, and was allowed by Royal Warrant to adopt the name of d’Eyncourt to preserve this famous name His elder brother, the Rev. George Tennyson, was father to, among others, Alfred, later Lord and Poet Laureate
In about 1810 Charles was told that the then Duke of Bedford was pulling down one of the d’Eyncourt family houses, an Elizabethan Manor which had become part of the Bedford Estates called Woburn d’Eyncourt.
Charles posted down to Woburn, went through the house and pur-chased ail the Elizabethan and Jacobean panelling, which he had carted back to Bayons Manor, his family seat
He then instructed his estate car-penter to make this desk out of some of the panelling and supporters from the Elizabethan overmantels at Woburn d’Eyncourt. When it was finished it took pride of place in Charles’ enormous library at Bayons. Meanwhile, Alfred was growing up, and having been tutored only by his father, who refused to send any of his children to school, was a constant visitor to Bayons where he spent a considerable time browsing through Charles’ immense collection of books
In the family the commonly held belief is that, on one of his visits to Bayons, Alfred went for a long walk in the park and was observed sitting obsessed by the waterfall of the stream that runs through the Home Park of Bayons. When he returned to the house, he went straight to the library and sitting at this desk wrote the outline of one of his most famous poems, ‘The Brook’: ‘I Come from haunts of Coot and Hern. . . .’ In later years he told a friend (Hallam) that the poem was based on his observations and reflections on the stream at Bayons.
A SATINWOOD OCCASIONAL TABLE, the
circular top painted with a border of leaves, the frieze with a diamond trellis, on square tapering legs, 29 by 17|in; 74 by 45cm, c. 1900.
A BURR-WALNUT GAMES TABLE, the top
inlaid with foliate stringing, the interior with a piain surface, on a trestle support with leaf-carved cabriole legs joined by a pole stretcher, 27| by 35in; 70 by 89cm, c. 1870.
A WALNUT WHATNOT with three curved tiers joined by turned supports, 39 by 23in; 99 by 58.5cm, modern.
A PAIR OF GILTWOOD SIDE TABLES, each
with a serpentine marble top and
pierced frieze carved with scroll-work,
on four cabriole legs carved with
festoons of flowers and joined by leaf-
carved scrolling stretchers, 34by
53in; 88 by 136cm, third quarter of the
Century.
A WALNUT CENTRE TABLE, the tip-top of
serpentine outline with a moulded border, on a pierced base carved with scrolls, with scroll-carved cabriole legs, 30 by 59in; 76 by 150cm, c. 1860.
A LATE ‘GEORGE II’ EDWARDS AND
ROBERTS URN TABLE, the square top of serpentine outline with an open fret gallery above a shallow drawer, on square chamfered legs carved with blind fret, stamped Edwards & Roberts, 21′i by 13in; 69 by 33cm, 1880′.
A MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK with three
frieze drawers and three drawers in each pedestal, 47in; 120cm wide, 1890.
A GOOD MAHOGANY AND BURR SYCAMORE
WOOTTON DESK, the superstructure flanked by urns, above a hinged panel enclosing pigeon-holes and two short-panelled curved cupboards inset with two letter-boxes, one inscribed Letters, the other Manufactured by Wootton Desk Co. Indianapolis, Ind. Pad. Oct. 6 1874, enclosing an arrangement of cupboard doors, pigeon-holes and open shelves and a fall-front enclosing further pigeon-holes, drawers and shelves, above four drawers flanked by magazine racks and open shelves, 72 by 41in; 183 by 105cm, c. 1880.
A PAINTED THREE-FOLD SCREEN, each
panel with a figure of Ceres, Flora and Pomona in classical costume in rect-angular mahogany frames, each with a pierced cresting, the reverse plain, each fold 71 by 20lin; 180 by 52cm, first quarter of the 20th century.
A SET OF SIX MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS,
the tapered backs with padded top-rails
carved with art nouveau stylised foliage,
the sprung seats on baluster turned
tapering legs, c. 1910.
A MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD CROSS-BANDED BUREAU BOOKCASE, the upper
part with a pair of glazed doors above a fitted interior, above two short and three long graduated drawers, 88 by 43in; 211 by 109cm, with two keys, 1900.
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