A REGENCY MAHOGANY, BRONZE AND BRASS MOUNTED BREAKFRONT SERVING OR CONSOLE TABLE, CIRCA 1815

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY, BRONZE AND BRASS MOUNTED BREAKFRONT SERVING OR CONSOLE TABLE IN THE MANNER OF MARSH & TATHAM, CIRCA 1815 With two frieze drawers and four bronze portrait mounts of the Goddess Luna or Selene 92cm high, 229cm wide, 73cm deep Charles Heathcote Tatham was employed during the 1790s by the architect Henry Holland. Between 1794 and 1796 he travelled in Rome and the Italian provinces, drawing and where possible purchasing fragments of Antique sculpture and architecture to send back to Holland in London. Many of the fragments Tatham acquired are now in the Soane Museum, while several of his drawings survive among the Tatham/Holland correspondence in the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1799, these and other examples of his drawings after the Antique were engraved and published in a single volume entitled Etchings of Ornamental Architecture drawn from the Originals in Rome and Other Parts of Italy during the years 1794, 1795 and 1796. Tatham's influence on Regency design can be seen in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Design, 1807. In Hope's publication, the application of bronze and brass as decoration for furniture and sculpture is well documented. The use of portrait masks and reliefs is frequently used in sketches by Hope, with a particular emphasis on comic and tragic masks and classical motifs. See plate XXXVII in Household Furniture (1807) for 'Comic and tragic masks taken from antique ornaments. See also Ibid figure 16 for the design of the chimneypiece for the dining room in Duchess Street which incorporates bacchante portrait masks and hairy paw feet, motifs which are shared with the present lot. Condition Report Disclaimer

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