Live Auction 17181The Collector: English Furniture, Works of Art and Portrait Miniatures
A QUEEN ANNE GILTWOOD AND NEEDLEWORK SIDE CHAIR
Lot 51THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A QUEEN ANNE GILTWOOD AND NEEDLEWORK SIDE CHAIR

ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS HOW, CIRCA 1710

Closed22 May 2019

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GBP 2,500

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A QUEEN ANNE GILTWOOD AND NEEDLEWORK SIDE CHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS HOW, CIRCA 1710
The rectangular padded high back with rosette supports above a padded seat covered in later floral gros-point needlework, on pierced square tapering legs joined by foliate shaped stretchers with a central turned finial, on inscrolled foliate feet terminating in rosettes, two mahogany rails replaced in the 19th century, previously with castors, regilt
49 in. (124.5 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep

Theresa, Lady Graham Montgomery, Kinross House, Perthshire and 25, Bruton Street; sold Winkworth & Co. [auctioneers], 9 April 1930, lot 75.
with M. Harris & Sons, Ltd.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 27 May 2010, lot 65.

Specialist note

A suite of almost identical seat-furniture surviving at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire suggests that the current chair is likely to have been made in the same workshop. The Hatfield suite, comprising a pair of armchairs and six side chairs all in giltwood, was supplied to James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1691-1728) by Thomas How, of Jarman Street, Westminster in 1711 (A. Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, Woodbridge, 2002, p. 255-256, pls. 8:47 & 8:48). How supplied furnishings to Hatfield, in 1710-11 including a State bed, to the value of £830.