A GEORGE II SOLID MAHOGANY STOOL

CIRCA 1750

Details

A GEORGE II SOLID MAHOGANY STOOL
CIRCA 1750
With rectangular seat upholstered in floral Savonnerie tapestry, above a serpentine shell-carved frame, on foliate cabriole legs
17 in. (43 cm.) high, 21 in. (53.5 cm.) wide, 16 ½ in. (42.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973.

Literature

E.A. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. II, p. 649, no. 108 (the Savonnerie seat).

Lot Essay

A very similar pair of stools, possibly supplied to James, 1st Lord Selsey (d. 1808) was sold from the Collection of Edward James Collection, West Dean Park, Christie’s, 2, 3 and 6 June 1986, lot 190, and is now in the Gerstenfeld Collection, Washington, D.C.(illustrated in E. Lennox-Boyd (ed.), Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, no. 59, p. 221, pl. 92.)

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