A SET OF FOUR GEORGE IV CALAMANDER SIDE CHAIRS

BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1825

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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE IV CALAMANDER SIDE CHAIRS
By Gillows, circa 1825
Each with an undulating paterae and anthemion-carved toprail and waisted chanelled uprights with a beaded horizontal splat, with caned seats and squab cushion, with a paterae-centered rail on fan-headed turned and reeded tapering legs, one inscribed in white chalk Stoneleigh Abbey and stamped M twice and signed indistinctly in pencil ...1825, one inscribed in white chalk Stoneleigh and Class room twice and stamped M twice, another inscribed Abbey and Class room in white chalk, branded LL to one rail and impressed L and an indistinct brand to the underside of the front left corner block and inscribed General Wolfe in white chalk and stamped K twice, the final chair branded LL twice to the rail and stamped K twice (4)

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to Chandos Leigh for Stoneleigh Abbey, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, after he inherited the house in 1823.

Lot Essay

A pair of chairs most likely from the same set were sold Christie's House sale, Stoneleigh Abbey, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, 15-16 October 1981, lot 89.

These chairs, with their palm-flowered and reed-enriched frames, relate to chair patterns in the 1823 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster, and a set of dining-chairs delivered by the firm in 1825 to Earl Cornwallis for Linton Park, Kent (see S. Sartin, Gillow Chairs and Fashion, Exhibition Catalogue, Blackburn, 1991, pp.34-35).

A related set of chairs was sold by Lord Brownlow, Belton House, Lincolnshire, Christie's house sale, 26 September 1988, lot 113. Much of the Gillows furniture came to Belton House when the family's London home in Carlton House Terrace was sold in the 1920s. A further related set is shown in situ in the Dining-Room at Holme Lacy, Herefordshire (see C. Latham, In English Homes, New York, 1909, vol.I, p.387).

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