CIRCA 1745, THE RIGHT CRESTRAIL PROBABLY REPLACED

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AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY DOUBLE-CHAIRBACK SETTEE
CIRCA 1745, THE RIGHT CRESTRAIL PROBABLY REPLACED
The double-back joined by a pierced shell, with foliate and flower-head carved backs, with out-scrolled eagle-head arms, above an associated contemporary gros and petit-point needlework seat, on bead-carved cabriole legs and paw feet, with paper label inscribed 1 to underside of back rail, formerly with casters
49½ in. (126 cm.) wide, over arms

Provenance

Count Louis Zborowski (1895-1924), Higham Park, Canterbury, Kent.
With J. Rochelle Thomas, London.
George Horace Lorimer; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 29 March - 1 April 1944, lot 811.

Literature

F. L. Hinckley, A Directory of Queen Anne Early Georgian and Chippendale Furniture, New York, 1971, pp. 72, fig. 90.

Sale room notice

Please note that it is the right crestrail, not the splat, that appears to be replaced.

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Lot Essay

Count Louis Zborowski achieved fame as a race-car driver and engineer, notably producing a series of motor cars known as Chitty Bang Bang, which inspired Ian Fleming's novel and subsequent movie. Zborowski's American mother was born Margaret Laura Astor Carey (1853-1911), a granddaughter of William Backhouse Astor, Sr., and his father, the Polish Count William Eliot Morris Zborowski, was also a race-car driver. Both father and son were killed in car crashes.

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