Design 17/20: Silver, Furniture & Ceramics
Design 17/20: Silver, Furniture & Ceramics
Property from the Collection of the Late Paula and Don Gaston
A George I Walnut Bentside Spinet, by Thomas Hitchcock the Younger, London, First Quarter 18th Century
Lot Closed
October 18, 06:07 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A George I Walnut Bentside Spinet, by Thomas Hitchcock the Younger, London, First Quarter 18th Century
The nameboard inscribed: Thomas Hitchcock, Londoni Fecit No. 1060
The shaped case with ivory and ebony keys, raised on vase-turned and block supports joined by an H stretcher, and ending in Spanish feet.
height 33 in.; width 71 in.
83.8 cm; 180.3 cm
This Spinet is recorded in Donald Boalch’s Makers of the Harpsichords and Clavicords, 1440-1840 (ed Charles Mould), Oxford, 1995
This George I Spinet, with a bentside walnut case applied with ornamented brass hinges and with ivory veneered keys, is signed Thomas Hitchcock, Londoni, Fecit No.1060 in the oval cartouche on the nameboard. The form of this Walnut Spinet with its typical ornamented brass hinges is highly indicative of the early Georgian period in England.
Thomas Hitchcock the Younger (ca.1685-after1733) was the most prolific member of a family of keyboard instrument-makers in London, which spanned three generations from 1660 to 1770.
Thomas Hitchcock the Younger used serial numbers rather than dates on his name batten, this one being No. 1060 which suggest a date in the first decade of the 18th Century so it might be Queen Anne but more likely George I period (1714-1727).
A Comparable Spinet is located in the National Museum of American History, Washington D.C.
Accession number 62559, Catalog number 303532
A full-size harpsichord by Thomas Hitchcock the Younger is located in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Accession number 126-1890