A REGENCY MAHOGANY X-FRAME STOOL

BY GILLOWS

Details

A REGENCY MAHOGANY X-FRAME STOOL
By Gillows
The dished caned seat with scroll ends and on panelled X-frame supports and on bun feet, repairs to legs and lacking one roundel
21¾ in. (55 cm.) wide

Provenance

Supplied to William Powlett, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782-1850) for Hackwood.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954).
Thence by descent.

Literature

Memorandum, May 1813, the South Center (sic) Bedroom: 'A mahogany Dressing Stool Caned Seat'. This description matches several in other bedrooms.
H. Avray Tipping, 'Hackwood Park - II', Country Life, 17 May 1913, p. 707.

Lot Essay

A manuscript design for this model of stool is in the Estimate Sketch Book, 1827, p. 3568, as A Mahogany Grecian Dressing Stool with a price of £1 15s (City of Westminster Archive Centre). Stools of an almost identical form were supplied to Tatton Park, Cheshire, in 1812 (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pl. 22).
Another, from Osberton Hall, Nottingham, was sold by Michael Foljambe, Esq., Christie's London, 13 October 1986, lot 156.

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