{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":33213,"auction_id":41,"set_id":66,"lot_number":"134","artist":"Divan","title":null,"starting_price":120000,"signed_dated":"Second half of the nineteenth century  (1850 – 190","medium":"Golden narra wood","size":"H: 36 1/2” x L: 90” x W: 27 1/4”  (93 cm x 229 cm","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Provenance:  Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"This Filipino divan of wood and cane is clearly of American Empire  derivation with tinges of English Regency. The simple scrolled back  extends to straight arms terminating in C – scrolls radiating from  a big stylized acanthus leaf at the base (which has its design origins  in the Percier & Fontaine swans of the Empress Josephine).  The 4 feet are of inverse stylized lotus or acanthus forms. Its overall  structure, complex joinery, and seat height identifies it as having  come from the past century and not modern production which  is an initial impression.  The American Empire style of furniture and interior decoration  was introduced after 1815 to New York by French emigre ebeniste  Charles – Honore Lannuier taking direct inspiration from the  Napoleonic French Empire style. It was characterized by classical  architectural forms, Greek and Roman motifs, dark woods and  black lacquer finishes, gilt – brass mounts, and decorative inlays.  The style was taken up by Scottish immigrant cabinetmaker Duncan  Phyfe and promoted throughout the 1830s – 40s. It spread to the  rest of the Eastern seaboard to Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.  The American Empire style remained influential in the outlying areas  of the East Coast up to the end of the 1800s and even enjoyed a  resurgence before that century ended. The late European Neoclassical styles of the French Empire, English  Regency, American Empire, and Biedermeier reached Las Islas  Filipinas from the 1820s – 1840s. The limited furniture that was  produced during that time took on late Neoclassical forms with finishes  ranging from natural \"almaciga\" resin to dark mahogany staining to  black lacquer. There were Greek \"klismos\" – type chairs and  armchairs, Biedermeier – style chairs with enveloping backs alluding to  natural forms, magisterial French Empire – type armchairs for prelates  and dignitaries, divans/recamiers/sofas with foliar carvings and reeded  legs in either \"golden narra\" wood, \"molave\" wood, or dark  \"kamagong\" wood (corresponding to Indian ebony); relatively low  \"aparador\"/cabinets in either \"golden narra\" wood, \"molave\" wood,  ordark \"kamagong\" wood flanked by pilasters or free standing  columns of dark \"kamagong\" wood, crested by friezes with exquisite  marquetry of various rare woods or even intricate inlays of mother  – of – pearl topped by finials on the 4 corners; elegant bedsteads with  extensive foliar carving with reeded testers and legs in either \"golden  narra\" wood and dark \"kamagong\" wood. Brought to the islands by the  big British trading houses (Jardine Matheson & Company, Smith  Bell & Company, et al), the scrolling \"Prince of Wales\" feathers of the  English Regency style was a favorite motif from the 1820s onwards,  appearing in both stylized and realistic forms on chairs, divans/recamiers/  sofas, table bases, headboards and footboards of tester beds, aparador  crests, and even on wall and door panels. Neoclassical architectural  forms, long present in baroque versions since colonization, were  reinforced in the collective design consciousness by new structures,  imbuing many buildings, houses, and interiors with restraint, elegance,  dignity, and grace.  -Augusto M R Gonzalez III","lot_group":"FURNITURE","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":31185,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/41/66/lot/134.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[70000,80000,90000,100000,110000,120000,130000,140000,150000,160000,170000,180000,190000,200000,220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":133,"next":135,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}