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A GEORGE I OAK BOOKCASE POSSIBLY BY THOMAS RIPLEY, CIRCA 1725
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2023年10月04日 开拍 / 2023年10月02日 截止委托
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A GEORGE I OAK BOOKCASE POSSIBLY BY THOMAS RIPLEY CIRCA 1725 The fabric lined glazed doors enclosing adjustable shelves, the panelled doors enclosing drawers with gilt metal ring handles and handwritten ink labels 'Leases...Cottage Agreements... Farm Agreements...Papers relating to the leasehold lands under Christ Church...', inscribed in paint twice to the back 'RW' 270cm high, 198cm wide, 62cm deep Provenance: Almost certainly supplied to Sir Robert Walpole, later 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745) or his son, Robert, 2nd Earl of Orford (1700-1751) for Houghton Hall, Norfolk and by descent at Houghton. Property of the Marquess of Cholmondeley, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Christie's, London, Important English Furniture and Carpets, 24 November 2005, lot 29, where purchased by Robert Kime. Literature: G. Nares, 'Wolterton Hall, Norfolk - II: The Home of Lord Walpole', Country Life, 25 July 1957, pp. 166-169. A. Bowett, 'Thomas Ripley and the Use of Early Mahogany', The Georgian Group Journal, 1997, pp. 140-145. A. Moore, E. Bottoms, 'A New Walpole Discovery', The Burlington Magazine, January 2006, pp. 34-37. ed. T. Murdoch, Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses, Cambridge, 2006. In 1722 building commenced of Houghton Hall for Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister. From 1725 William Kent decorated the interior and designed furniture for the state rooms. This bookcase is probably the 'wainscot bookcase with plate glass doors' recorded at Houghton Hall in 1792 in room 'No. 86 Stewards office' (Murdoch, p. 198). In 1722, building on Houghton began for Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's first Prime Minister. From 1725, the Palladian architect and designer, William Kent (c. 1685-1745), was employed to design the interiors and furniture of the state rooms. However, this bookcase was possibly designed by Thomas Ripley, who prior to becoming an architect and Surveyor in the Royal Office of Works trained as a carpenter. Ripley acted as building supervisor at Houghton, and from 1727, designed Wolterton Hall, Norfolk, and in the 1730s, a house in the Cockpit, Whitehall, for Walpole. Ripley used mahogany extensively for the interior wainscotting, doors, door-cases and stairs at Houghton, all of which were heavily carved and richly detailed (Bowett, p. 142). The use of mahogany on such a scale suggests that in the early years mahogany was considered suitable for joinery being no more costly than wainscot. Walpole's mahogany was shipped from Jamaica to King's Lynn via London from mid-1724, and it was Ripley who organised the freight, lighterage (transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes) and storage for the shipments. After the 1720s, the fashion for mahogany as a furniture wood superseded its employment as architectural joinery. The Houghton archives show that after the initial phase of building was completed, Ripley was paid the substantial sum of £500; this probably included payment for further alterations to the house and stable block and the designing of the church tower (PRO C101/19). As the payment is not itemised, presumably it may have also included furniture. Certainly, Ripley's correspondence in the Wolterton archive shows he was responsible for the hanging of the pictures, and possibly designed frames for the royal portraits there suggesting he may have designed furniture as well (Nares, p. 166). Condition Report: REPAIR THE CORNICE LONG YARD Condition Report Disclaimer

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