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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN, FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE COLONEL NORMAN COLVILLE, M.C. (LOTS 44-45)

A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SETTEE

CIRCA 1710

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A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SETTEE
CIRCA 1710
With shaped arched padded back, squab cushion and outscrolled arms covered in crimson silk-velvet edged with tassels, on fluted tapering legs with inscrolled feet, joined by X-frame stretchers, the back legs in beech, two back legs with repaired breaks
55½ in. (141 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The seat, with stretcher-tied columnar legs, relates to a Louis Quatorze bedroom apartment chair illustrated circa 1700 in the Paris-trained architect Daniel Marot's Second Livre d'Appartements and its pattern corresponds to that invented circa 1708 to accompany the state bed supplied for Sir Richard Onslow, later 1st Baron Onslow (d. 1717) around the time he was elected Speaker of Queen Anne's House of Commons (A. Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, Woodbridge, 2002, pl. 8:50). The seat furniture inventoried at Clandon Park, Surrey in 1778 accompanied the 'noble costly Bedstead, the Hangings beautifully worked in great variety of colour', and comprised 'Six Backstool chairs, covered with needlework & serge cases. An easy chair with cushion & two stools to correspond'.

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