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Lot Essay
In its overall form, with compass seat and cartouche-form back with inset shell clasp to the toprail, this chair is of similar form to the celebrated suite of seat-furniture at Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, which retains its original petit point needlework covering with the arms of the 3rd Lord and Lady Leigh. This latter suite is illustrated in situ in C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Early Georgian, Woodbridge, 1986, p.39.
With its distinctive exaggerated paw-and-ball feet, this chair relates to a group of stools undoubtedly executed in the same workshop, including:- one sold in these Rooms, 13 April 2000, lot 129; another sold from the collection of Dr. Frank Crozier Knowles in these Rooms, 22 October 1988, lot 208; and a pair, one of which was stamped by the journeyman chairmaker 'IDS', sold anonymously at Christie's London, 25 October 1990, lot 109 and probably those subsequently with Mallett & Sons (Antiques) Ltd., London. A stool with similar high profiled paw feet but with typically Irish attenuated muscular ankles was sold from the Estate of Sidney R. Newman in these Rooms, 12 October 1996, lot 249.
With its distinctive exaggerated paw-and-ball feet, this chair relates to a group of stools undoubtedly executed in the same workshop, including:- one sold in these Rooms, 13 April 2000, lot 129; another sold from the collection of Dr. Frank Crozier Knowles in these Rooms, 22 October 1988, lot 208; and a pair, one of which was stamped by the journeyman chairmaker 'IDS', sold anonymously at Christie's London, 25 October 1990, lot 109 and probably those subsequently with Mallett & Sons (Antiques) Ltd., London. A stool with similar high profiled paw feet but with typically Irish attenuated muscular ankles was sold from the Estate of Sidney R. Newman in these Rooms, 12 October 1996, lot 249.