Lot Essay
This armchair relates to patterns published in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793. Its back also relates to contemporary patterns in the archives of Gillows of London and Lancaster; the splat, for instance, appearing on chairs supplied in 1795 to Embsay Hall, Skipton (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs, London, 1995, figs. 28 and 30).
The present chair possibly formed part of the same suite as two sold from the property of the estate of Philp Kerrigan, Jr. at Sotheby's New York, 12 Oct. 1995, lot 167. Its back pattern also features on a suite of ten chairs sold from the property of the estate of Henry S. Williams, Sotheby's New York, 21 April 1989, lot 252.
The present chair possibly formed part of the same suite as two sold from the property of the estate of Philp Kerrigan, Jr. at Sotheby's New York, 12 Oct. 1995, lot 167. Its back pattern also features on a suite of ten chairs sold from the property of the estate of Henry S. Williams, Sotheby's New York, 21 April 1989, lot 252.