THE LINTON PARK HALL BENCH, English, circa 1795
Height: 3 ft 1½ in; 95 cm
Height of seat: 1 ft 6½ in; 47 cm
Width: 5 ft 1 in; 155 cm
Depth: 2 ft ½ in; 62 cm
Height of seat: 1 ft 6½ in; 47 cm
Width: 5 ft 1 in; 155 cm
Depth: 2 ft ½ in; 62 cm
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£50,000 - £100,000
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A George III mahogany hall bench. Note: The bench retains the original polychrome painted family crest of the Mann family of Linton Park. The hall bench has several distinct features...
A George III mahogany hall bench.
Note: The bench retains the original polychrome painted family crest of the Mann family of Linton Park.
The hall bench has several distinct features which are repeated on other commissions by Ince & Mayhew. The overall shape of the seat conforms to a bench made for Southill Park, Bedfordshire, around 1770; most strikingly, both benches have deeper than standard seats. The turned legs on both commissions are virtually identical, but the panelled back and solid volute arms on the present bench differ from the Southill model.
Another bench by Ince & Mayhew, however, supplied by them to the 14th Earl of Shrewsbury around 1780, and now in the National Trust Collection at Kenwood House, London, features both the panelled back with oval crest inserts and very noticeably the solid volute arms. The latter feature can perhaps be seen as a distinctive indicator of the workshop of origin.
Provenance
Sir Horatio Mann, 2nd Baronet, Linton Park, Kent, England;
by descent to James Cornwallis, 4th Earl Cornwallis, Linton Park, Kent, England.
Literature
Charles Cator and Hugh Roberts, Industry and Ingenuity: The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew, 2022, p. 379, figs. 371 & 372.
