PARTLY 17TH CENTURY, IN THE RENAISSANCE STYLE

Details

A WALNUT X-FRAME OPEN ARMCHAIR
PARTLY 17TH CENTURY, IN THE RENAISSANCE STYLE
Without swept scroll arms, written in ink on the back-rail '331(?)3560' with a label to the reverse 'PATTERN', indistinctly 'D.M.3560'

Provenance

The Parker Knoll records state that this chair was acquired from Clifford in 1919, for £11.10.0.
Sold Christie's, London, ('Chairs formerly in the Parker Knoll Collection'), 24 September 1998, lot 228.

Exhibited

London, Phillips, The Frederick Parker Collection, 2-27 August, 1996, p.17, no.9.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Frederick Parker began his collection of historic chairs in the early 20th century to serve as prototypes for the firm of Messrs. Frederick Parker and Sons, which he founded 1870 in London's East End (C. Claxton Stevens, The Parker Collection, Country Life, 29 October 1998, pp.62-63).

This chair form, with its volute-scrolled arms, relates to those of a suite of japanned chairs from the Duke of Leeds Collection, illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1924, vol. I, pl. XV.

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