Butchoff
A Rare Regency Period Divan after a design by Thomas Hope
( 1810
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Dimensions:
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237.00cm wide
63.00cm high
59.00cm deep
(93.31 inches wide 24.80 inches high 23.23 inches deep)
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Description:
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Constructed in Rosewood, rising from shaped, waisted short legs, part gilded, and carved with palmettes and lotus leaves, in the Graeco- Egyptian taste, the block ends and rails having complex brass inlays in arabesques, with a central tablet on the front rail. The arms and seat upholstered in contemporary fabric. Stamped to the frame with the journeyman’s mark ‘HH’.
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Literature:
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Thomas Hope has illustrated in his seminal work ‘Household Furniture and Interior Decoration’ of 1807, Plates 9 and 17, a divan of virtually identical form, although in the Egyptian taste. Consonances with this design are to be found in Sheraton’s ‘Drawing Book’ of 1803, and Percier and Fontaine’s ‘ Recueil des Decorations Interieures’ of 1801.
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