Lot 19
19
A MID-VICTORIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT CIRCULAR STOOL
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A MID-VICTORIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT CIRCULAR STOOL

THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A MID-VICTORIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT CIRCULAR STOOL
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The padded buttoned seat covered in appliqué felt, above a turned baluster gallery and arcade, on turned legs joined by an x-stretcher with paw feet, with printed paper (depository?) label 'Richard Norton, Inc. CHICAGO, ILL.' inscribed 'Z 275'
18 in. (46 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Purchased by Richard Norton Inc. in Paris in 1977.
Almost certainly purchased by the Lord Leigh, circa 1981 and by descent.
Exhibited
Chicago, Art Institute, November 1980.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This splendidly tufted and tassled Ottoman stool mosaiced in red, blue and black epitomises the Turkish taste promoted by the architect Owen Jones', Grammar of Ornament, 1856 (pl. 36), and adopted by romantics such as Frances, Countess Waldegrave (d. 1879) in the 'crumocious' embellishment of her Strawberry Hill boudoir at Twickenham (J. Mordaunt Crook, 'Strawberry Hill Revisited-III', Country Life, 21 June 1973 p.1797, fig.7).

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