Lot 46
OWEN JONES, DESIGNER (1809-1874); ALFRED MORRISON, PATRON (1809-1874); JACKSON & GRAHAM, MAKER Y
INLAID EBONY PANEL, CIRCA 1865
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 | 577
Auction: 23 October 2019 at 11:00 BST
Description
the black ground inlaid in ivory with profusely scrolling foliage, and centred with the monogram AM, the whole within moulded frame
Dimensions
35cm x 43cm
Footnote
Literature: Jervis, Simon The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 123, No.939 (June 1981), see p.379, plate 50 where a cabinet fitted with similar panels is illustrated
The Fine Art Society, London Architect – Designers Pugin to Mackintosh, p.12
Provenance: Supplied to Alfred Morrison, Esq., for Fonthill, Wiltshire.
Note: Alfred Morrison's house, The Pavillion, at Fonthill, now demolished, was designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt and David Brandon in 1849 and incorporated the surviving wing of William Beckford's 'Fonthill Splendens'.
Between 1862 and 1865 Owen Jones worked at Fonthill and his work included the decoration of a drawing room, probably the one described by The Builder, 9 May 1874, as 'built, decorated and fitted up' by Jackson and Graham 'from Mr Jones's designs in the Cinquecento style, of which it forms an exquisite example. The ceiling is of wood, panelled, and inlaid, the mouldings being black and gold'. The room was created to house Morrison's extensive collection of Chinese Porcelain, including many of the finest objects from Peking's Summer Palace, which had been looted and burned at the end of the Second Opium War in 1860.
At the beginning of the 20th century the room was dismantled and most of the room was bought by R.W.Borley Esq., and installed at his house Barton Hill House, Shaftesbury, between 1910 and 1920.
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