Provenance & Patina: Important English Furniture from a West Coast Collection
Provenance & Patina: Important English Furniture from a West Coast Collection
A Pair of George I Giltwood and Gilt-Gesso Open Armchairs Attributed to James Moore, Circa 1720
Auction Closed
June 18, 08:33 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
each with a rectangular padded back and seat covered in contemporary and possibly original blue and red wool and silk needlework edged with silver gilt woven lace, the scrolled arms above acanthus-carved supports, on cabriole legs headed by Indian masks with stylised acanthus headdresses, above foliate-carved pad feet, with original webbing, the chairs with pencil numbering to the seat rail, the gilding refreshed with original gilding visible underneath, with later crimson silk to the reverse with traces of original crimson wool underneath
height 41 in.; width 32 in.; depth 29 ½ in.
104.1 cm; 81.3 cm; 74.9 cm
Sir Richard Child, 1st Viscount Castlemaine, later 1st Earl Tylney (5 February 1680-March 1750), who commissioned the set of twelve for Wanstead House, Essex;
thence by decent to Sir James Long, 7th Bt and his wife Lady Catherine Windsor;
thence by decent to their daughter, Catherine, who married William Pole-Tynley-Long-Wellesley, late 4th Earl of Mornington;
The set was sold in pairs from Wanstead House at the house sale conducted by Mr. Robins on 10 June 1822 and 31 following days, seventeenth day’s sale; lots 23 and 27 are the present chairs, acquired by ‘Lane’ for £27.6, and £26.15.6. The remaining eight chairs were acquired by Philip John Miles for Leigh Court, Somerset;
Given to William John Monson, 6th Baron Monson (d. 1862) by 'Anna' Wakelin for Burton Hall possibly in the mid-1850s, and thence by descent until sold in 2015;
Acquired from Rolleston, London.
THE MONSON CHAIRS:
An Inventory of the Household Furniture, Linen, China, Glass, Books, Wines and Effects of the Late Sir James Tylney Long Bart. deceased at Wanstead House in the County of Essex appraised Feb’y 23 1795 & Following Days, in the ‘Dressing Room’ of the ‘Crimson Bed Chamber’.
Mr. Robins, Wanstead house sale, 10 June 1822 and 31 following days, lots 23 and 27, selling to 'Lane’ for £27.6, and £26.15.6.
A. Denney, Burton Hall, privately published, 1950, two of the chairs in the Stone Drawing Room.
THE LEIGH COURT CHAIRS:
Mr. Robins, Wanstead house sale, 10 June 1822 and 31 following days, lots 24, 25, 26 and 28.
P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, The Age of Mahogany, London and New York, 1906, pl. 1 and p. 40.
A pair (from Leigh Court) in the collection of Phyllis Lapham, illustrated ‘Foreign Correspondence’, House and Garden, vol. 157, no. 1, January 1985, pp. 81–83, subsequently sold Christie’s London, 19 November 1992, lot 59, and also probably the pair in the Mallett Year Book, 1993.