CIRCA 1660-80, COROMANDEL COAST

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A SET OF SIX INDIAN CARVED EBONY SIDE CHAIRS
CIRCA 1660-80, COROMANDEL COAST
Each carved overall with scrolling foliage, with pierced arched toprail centred by a winged maiden issuing chimerae, above spirally-turned columns and a drop-in caned seat, on spirally-turned legs and stretchers and ball feet, one seat replaced, the caned seats replaced
39½ in. (100.5 cm.) height of seat; 21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) wide; 19¼ in. (49 cm.) deep 39½ in. (100.5 cm.) height of seat; 21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) wide; 19¼ in. (49 cm.) deep (6)

Provenance

Possibly acquired by Thomas Drake Thrwhitt-Drake (d.1810); until sold
Shardeloes, Curtis & Henson, 15 May 1947, lot 85.

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Lot Essay

This set of chairs, with "garuda" birds perched on their crestings, formed part of the furnishings that may have been introduced to Sharledoes, Buckinghamshire by William Drake's second son, Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt-Drake (d.1810).

SHARDELOES
Shardeloes was built for William Drake M.P. between 1758 and 1766, to designs principally by Stiff Leadbetter (b.1705). Leadbetter was among the group of architects that responded to changing fashions in country house use in the 1750s. In 1758, Drake commissioned the rising architect Robert Adam to improve the plans both outside and in. After devoting years to the construction, decoration and furnishing of the house, William Drake found that the situation had injured his health and he died in 1796.

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