A PAIR OF EBONISED CHAIRS

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A PAIR OF EBONISED CHAIRS

Each with padded back and seat upholstered in nailed floral patterned red velvet on bobbin-turned legs and stretchers, one cut down in size, restorations to the stretchers, one back-rail re-supported, 17th Century and later (2)

来源

Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire

拍品专文

These ball-turned chairs, known in the 17th Century as 'back-stools', are likely to have formed part of the original furnishings commissioned for Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire, following its building in the mid-17th Century by Sir Henry Blount (d. 1682). A chair of related pattern from Wooton House, Sussex, is illustrated in M. Harris, The English Chair, 1937, p. 81, pl. X1B