THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
(Lots 70-73)
A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
Details
A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
En suite with the preceding lots, each chair with two later seat-rails, one chair with one later cross-strut, one chair with paper label to the underside inscribed in ink 'Blue Damask Room', the other with paper label inscribed in pencil 'S' nailed over a label inscribed in ink 'Blue Damask Room' (2)
En suite with the preceding lots, each chair with two later seat-rails, one chair with one later cross-strut, one chair with paper label to the underside inscribed in ink 'Blue Damask Room', the other with paper label inscribed in pencil 'S' nailed over a label inscribed in ink 'Blue Damask Room' (2)
Provenance
Probably supplied to James, 13th Earl of Morton (d.1768) for Dalmahoy House, Midlothian, when he bought the house circa 1750.
By descent at Dalmahoy, probably until the mid-1930s.
Mrs. Robert Emmet, 3 Grosvenor Square, London, sold Sotheby's London, 27 October 1941, lot 158 (one sofa illustrated).
Acquired by the vendor's family in 1941.
By descent at Dalmahoy, probably until the mid-1930s.
Mrs. Robert Emmet, 3 Grosvenor Square, London, sold Sotheby's London, 27 October 1941, lot 158 (one sofa illustrated).
Acquired by the vendor's family in 1941.
Sale room notice
The Dalmahoy Suite
Another side chair from the Dalmahoy suite was sold from the collection of the late Dr. Frank Crozer Knowles, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, Christie's New York, 22 October 1988, lot 217. It was sold with the printed provenance of the Earls of Morton, Dalmahoy, which confirms the Dalmahoy inscription on these chairs. The chair was later in the collection of John Holms, Formakin, Bishopton, Renfrewshire, and was probably sold when he died by Morrison and McChlery, Glasgow, 17-20 October 1938. Holms was buying furniture during the first decade of the 20th Century, and it is possible that he purchased the suite directly from the Morton family.
Another side chair from the Dalmahoy suite was sold from the collection of the late Dr. Frank Crozer Knowles, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, Christie's New York, 22 October 1988, lot 217. It was sold with the printed provenance of the Earls of Morton, Dalmahoy, which confirms the Dalmahoy inscription on these chairs. The chair was later in the collection of John Holms, Formakin, Bishopton, Renfrewshire, and was probably sold when he died by Morrison and McChlery, Glasgow, 17-20 October 1938. Holms was buying furniture during the first decade of the 20th Century, and it is possible that he purchased the suite directly from the Morton family.