Bracket
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
carved wood
Measurements
23 x 28 x 21 cm
Collection
Carlyle's House, London
NT 263519
Summary
A carved and pierced hanging corner bracket, English, 19th century, the shaped top carved with dragons to the rim, the underside of the top carved with reliefs of bamboo, the two side supports fret carved with chinoiserie motifs including phoenix, bats, dragons and clouds. This bracket shares many similarities with a pair of carved hanging corner brackets (NT 263509) which are currently located in the Carlyle's drawing room.
Provenance
By descent, then This bracket, a similar pair of brackets (NT 263509) and a fourth mahogany bracket (NT 263522) were included as one lot at auction in 1932. Sotheby & Co, London, 'Catalogue of Printed Books.....Furniture, &c. Formerly The Property of Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, and now sold by order of the executors of his nephew, Alexander Carlyle', 13th & 14th June 1932, lot 236 - 'A set of three Chinese Corner Hanging brackets, carved with fabulous birds and bats amidst cloud bands, 10 in. to 7.1/2 in.; and a mahogany Bracket with escalloped gallery, 1 ft. 9in. wide'. Purchased (possibly by Mr. Reginald Blunt) and presented to the Carlyle's House Memorial Trust, circa 1932. The National Trust took over the management of Carlyle's House in 1936.