ATTRIBUTED TO HOLLAND & SONS, AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS HOPE, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A MID-VICTORIAN WALNUT 'CURULE' OPEN ARMCHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO HOLLAND & SONS, AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS HOPE, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The arched padded back between reeded uprights surmounted by stylised flowerheads, with part-padded arms and dished seat covered in chocolate leather, with reeded scrolled arm terminals and reeded X-frame legs centred by a stylised flowerhead

Provenance

By repute The United Oxford & Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, London.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The pattern relates to a matched pair of armchairs offered Christie's, London, 4 July 2002, lot 93, and like them derives from a 'curule' armchair pattern in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pls. VII and XX, nos. 3 and 4. One of the chairs sold in July 2002 was originally at Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire and was sold at Tennants, York, circa 1998.

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