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CIRCA 1730
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT AND BEECH SIDE CHAIRS
CIRCA 1730
Each with vase-shaped splat above a drop-in seat covered in 18th-century petit point floral needlework, on shell-carved cabriole legs
CIRCA 1730
Each with vase-shaped splat above a drop-in seat covered in 18th-century petit point floral needlework, on shell-carved cabriole legs
Provenance
Copson Manor, Surrey (a set of four).
With Arthur S. Vernay, Inc., New York.
The Estate of the Late James W. Barney, 19 East 72 Street, New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 8 May 1948, lot 45 (one needlework seat from lot 46).
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.
With Arthur S. Vernay, Inc., New York.
The Estate of the Late James W. Barney, 19 East 72 Street, New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 8 May 1948, lot 45 (one needlework seat from lot 46).
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.
Literature
Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 50, fig. 73.
Exhibited
New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Loan Exhibition of French and English Art Treasures of the XVIII Century in aid of the A.W.V.S., 20-30 December 1942, no. 505. p. 64.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition of English and Domestic Needlework of the XVI, XVII and XVIII Centuries, 1945.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition of English and Domestic Needlework of the XVI, XVII and XVIII Centuries, 1945.