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| "Completing the Picture" - A Selling Exhibition |
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Master of the Langmatt Foundation, Venetian School, Active 1730 – 1765. A view of the upper reaches of the Grand Canal with the churches of Santa Maria di Nazareth (il Scalzi), San Simeone Piccolo and Santa Lucia (now destroyed) taken from the Ponte degli Scalzi, Oil on canvas 35 x 52 ins (88.9 x 132.1 cms). Provenance: Estate of John Gauldie. A finely patinated early 19th century French bronze of a stallion. A George IV centre pedestal desk in mellowed mahogany, stamped Gillow, circa 1830. The mahogany-lined graduated drawers are locked by a single pilaster either side, the escutcheons concealed behind the capitals. The ends are panelled and the pedestals have cupboards with panelled doors containing lettered pigeon-holes on the reverse side. The firm of Gillows of London and Lancaster, founded in the 18th century, continued to make some of the finest quality furniture at this period. Width 53¾ ins (136.5 cms) Depth 34¾ ins (86 cms) Height 30 ins (76 cms).
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LONDON.-‘Completing the Picture’ is a selling exhibition pairing the finest examples from the Norman Adams’ Antique Furniture Collection, with a collection of Old Master Paintings selected by Rafael Valls Limited. This exhibition will run from Wednesday 7th November until Friday 23rd November, 2007 at Norman Adams Limited, 8 – 10 Hans Road, London SW3 1RX (opposite the west side of Harrods). Open Monday – Friday 10am – 5.30pm.
This is the first time that Norman Adams Limited and Rafael Valls Limited have combined examples from their joint collections for an exhibition in Norman Adams’ Knightsbridge Galleries.
‘Completing the Picture’ illustrates the perfect partnership that English antique furniture and Old Master paintings achieve with hand-picked pieces by leading eighteenth and nineteenth century cabinet-makers, including Henry Hill of Marlborough and Gillows, as well as Old Master paintings from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, including Sir Thomas Lawrence, Jan van Bylert and Jan Josefsz van Goyen. The exhibition offers both new and established collectors an opportunity to view signature pieces in a domestic setting.
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