A SET OF TEN LATE VICTORIAN OAK DINING CHAIRS
A SET OF TEN LATE VICTORIAN OAK DINING CHAIRS
A SET OF TEN LATE VICTORIAN OAK DINING CHAIRS
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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED ENGLISH COLLECTION (LOTS 39 - 55)
A SET OF TEN LATE VICTORIAN OAK DINING CHAIRS

RETAILED BY WILLIAM WHITELEY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TEN LATE VICTORIAN OAK DINING CHAIRS
RETAILED BY WILLIAM WHITELEY, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each with green leather upholstered backs and seats, the backs embossed with gilt crest of figure with hat under Latin motto 'FARI QUAE SENTIAS', on turned and reeded tapering legs, the front legs with ceramic castors
36 ½ in. (92.5 cm.) high; 19 in. (48.5 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This suite of chairs bears the family crest of the Barons Walpole of Walpole and Wolterton, Norfolk - A Saracen's Head And Neck Couped At The Shoulders Ppr., Ducally Crowned Or, With A Long Cap Turned Forward Gu., Tasselled Or, Thereon A Catherine-Wheel Of The Same – surmounted by the family motto, ‘FARI QUAE SENTIAS’ (To speak what he thinks).
The chairs were retailed by London’s first department store, William Whiteley Ltd., established by the self-styled ‘Universal Provider’, William Whiteley, in Bayswater in 1875. By 1892, Whiteley’s, as the store became known, was described as, ‘the most remarkable shop in London’, and ‘under one roof and under one management has been brought, not only something of everything produced and manufactured under and upon the earth, but provision for every possible need of domestic life’ (Mrs. S.A. Brock Putnam, The Decorator and Furnisher, vol. 20, no. 6, September 1892, p. 222).
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