Name: Auction: ITALIAN WALNUT AND INLAY DESK 17TH / 18TH CENTURY
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 4200 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

The Lingholm Collection

Sale number: 393A<blockquote>"The passion of the Lyon &amp; Turnbull team made them a true pleasure to work with from start to finish." - Lady Rochdale, vendor of The Lingholm Collection</blockquote>The Lingholm Collection was auctioned by Lyon &amp; Turnbull in October 2013, on the instructions of Lord and Lady Rochdale. Highlights included 16th century majolica, early furniture and works of art.Set in a dramatic location in the heart of the northern Lake District, Lingholm lies on the western shore of Derwentwater and has been home to the Rochdale family for over a hundred years. Built in the 1870s for Colonel J.F. Greenall of the Greenall brewing family, Lingholm was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830 -1905), one of the most successful and prolific architects of the Victorian period, whose most famous commission was the Natural History Museum in London. He was a favourite architect of the northern industrialists of the 19th century, designing country retreats for families looking to escape life in the city.The estate was purchased by the Colonel George Kemp, later the 1st Baron Rochdale, grandfather of the current Lord Rochdale, in the early 1900s. The house was extensively remodelled at that time with wings knocked down and extensions made and improvements to the gardens. New features included a 15th-century ‘pietra arenaria’ fire surround from the Facchinni palazzo in Arezzo and oak panelling and carved mantelpiece purchased from Mallett &amp; Son bearing the arms of James I removed from a former royal hunting lodge in Southampton. The interior is characteristically Renaissance chic, inspired by designer Percy Macquoid, who is thought to have worked on the property.The 1st Lord Rochdale filled the house with his collection of early English and Continental oak and walnut furniture, 16th-century Italian maiolica and 16th/17th-century Flemish tapestries. The main sequence of tapestries depict scenes from the book of Genesis and hang in the impressive Stone Room, and it is thought the room was designed especially to accommodate them. One tapestry illustrates scenes from the Creation of Adam, the Temptation in the Garden, the Fall and Banishment from the Eden while another represents the birth of Cain and Abel, the Sacrifice and the murder of Abel.

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the moulded rectangular hinged top opening to a fall front and three fitted drawers, raised on ring-turned baluster supports united by a wavy x-form stretcher centred by twin turned finials

ITALIAN WALNUT AND INLAY DESK

17TH / 18TH CENTURY

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