Lot Essay
Six armchairs from the same suite were sold Sotheby & Co., London, 6 December 1968, lot 129. Four of these chairs are advertised by Stair & Company, London in The Connoisseur, November 1969. Another pair (possibly the remaining two from the 1968 sale) were sold from the estate of Isabel Leighton Bunker, Sotheby's New York, 27 January 1996, lot 171.
These chairs are closely related to a set of fourteen supplied by Thomas Chippendale to Edward Lascelles for the White Drawing at
Harewood House, Yorkshire (illustrated in C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, vol. II, p. 114, fig. 199). The beaded panelled legs with gadrooned collars feature on a set of twelve probably supplied for the family bed and dressing rooms at Harewood (illustrated op. cit., vol. II, p. 111, fig. 189).
These chairs are closely related to a set of fourteen supplied by Thomas Chippendale to Edward Lascelles for the White Drawing at
Harewood House, Yorkshire (illustrated in C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, vol. II, p. 114, fig. 199). The beaded panelled legs with gadrooned collars feature on a set of twelve probably supplied for the family bed and dressing rooms at Harewood (illustrated op. cit., vol. II, p. 111, fig. 189).