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ATTRIBUTED TO MARSH & TATHAM, AFTER A DESIGN BY HENRY HOLLAND, CIRCA 1800-1810
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A PAIR OF REGENCY SIMULATED ROSEWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
ATTRIBUTED TO MARSH & TATHAM, AFTER A DESIGN BY HENRY HOLLAND, CIRCA 1800-1810
Reeded overall and mounted with gilt-metal flower-head roundels, with scrolled stiles and arms, on straight reeded front legs and sabre back legs, upholstered in green fabric, brass caps and castors, batton-carrying holes
36 in. (91/5 cm.) high; 23 ½ in. (59.5 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep
ATTRIBUTED TO MARSH & TATHAM, AFTER A DESIGN BY HENRY HOLLAND, CIRCA 1800-1810
Reeded overall and mounted with gilt-metal flower-head roundels, with scrolled stiles and arms, on straight reeded front legs and sabre back legs, upholstered in green fabric, brass caps and castors, batton-carrying holes
36 in. (91/5 cm.) high; 23 ½ in. (59.5 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Commissioned by either Edward, 1st Earl of Harewood (1740-1820) or his son, Edward 'Beau', Viscount Lascelles (1764-1814) for Harewood House, Hanover Square, London, or for Harewood House, Yorkshire, and thence by descent to the Earls of Harewood.
‘Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Harewood', offered Christie's, London, 28 June 1951, lot 46 (8 armchairs, a pair of sofas and a pair of window seats).
‘Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Harewood', offered Christie's, London, 28 June 1951, lot 46 (8 armchairs, a pair of sofas and a pair of window seats).
Literature
One armchair, the sofa and one window-seat illustrated in P. Macquoid, The History of English Furniture: The Age of Satinwood, London and New York, 1908, pp. 236-237, fig. 225; p. 238, fig. 226; p. 252, fig. 243.
T. Bolton, ‘Harewood House: The seat of the Earl of Harewood’, Country Life, 4 July 1914, p. 21, fig. 5, three chairs illustrated in ‘The Music Room’.
H. Avray Tipping, ‘Harewood House, Yorkshire: The Home of the Lascelles’, Country Life, 25 February 1922, p. 245, fig. 4, three chairs illustrated in ‘The Music Room’.
Christie, Manson & Woods, The Estate of the Rt. Hon. Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood: Valuation for Probate, January 1948, vol. 4, p. 76, no. 1: 'The Billiard Room'.
‘A suite of Regency rosewood furniture, comprising eight armchairs, a pair of window seats and two settees with scroll ends – 8 ft wide – supported on turned and fluted legs and mounted with ormolu foliage bosses, upholstered in green cloth. Illustrated in ‘A History of English Furniture (Age of Satinwood)’ by Percy Macquoid, figs. 225 and 243.’
C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Mid-Georgian 1760-1800, London, 1956, p. 66, fig. 116.
Abigail L.H. Moore, Imagining Egypt: The Regency Furniture Collections at Harewood House, Leeds and Nineteenth Century Images of Egypt (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Southampton, 2001), Fig. 65: Regency Sofa and Set of Chairs, Billiard Room; Fig. 84: Regency Couch and Chair, Billiard Room.
T. Bolton, ‘Harewood House: The seat of the Earl of Harewood’, Country Life, 4 July 1914, p. 21, fig. 5, three chairs illustrated in ‘The Music Room’.
H. Avray Tipping, ‘Harewood House, Yorkshire: The Home of the Lascelles’, Country Life, 25 February 1922, p. 245, fig. 4, three chairs illustrated in ‘The Music Room’.
Christie, Manson & Woods, The Estate of the Rt. Hon. Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood: Valuation for Probate, January 1948, vol. 4, p. 76, no. 1: 'The Billiard Room'.
‘A suite of Regency rosewood furniture, comprising eight armchairs, a pair of window seats and two settees with scroll ends – 8 ft wide – supported on turned and fluted legs and mounted with ormolu foliage bosses, upholstered in green cloth. Illustrated in ‘A History of English Furniture (Age of Satinwood)’ by Percy Macquoid, figs. 225 and 243.’
C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Mid-Georgian 1760-1800, London, 1956, p. 66, fig. 116.
Abigail L.H. Moore, Imagining Egypt: The Regency Furniture Collections at Harewood House, Leeds and Nineteenth Century Images of Egypt (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Southampton, 2001), Fig. 65: Regency Sofa and Set of Chairs, Billiard Room; Fig. 84: Regency Couch and Chair, Billiard Room.
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