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Lot Essay
The Parker Knoll records state that this chair frame was bought in 1914 for 10 shillings. It was used as a model for their PK 524.
There is a distinctive group of English chairs where the mouldings on the outside front edges of the channelled front legs protude slightly and are then matched by piping on the upholstery (in this case, fringing). A stool with this type of leg but with a serpentine apron was among a group of seat-furniture supplied by the Wakefield firm of Wright and Elwick to Burton Constable, Yorkshire, in 1773 (C. Gilbert, 'Wright and Elwick of Wakefield, 1748-1824: A Study of Provincial Patronage', Furniture History, 1976, pl. 13c). An open armchair of a more closely related pattern was sold from Swinton House, Yorkshire, in Christie's house sale, 20-21 October 1975, lot 17. It was also probably by Wright and Elwick who claimed to have fully furnished Swinton House for William Danby (ibid., p. 38).
There is a distinctive group of English chairs where the mouldings on the outside front edges of the channelled front legs protude slightly and are then matched by piping on the upholstery (in this case, fringing). A stool with this type of leg but with a serpentine apron was among a group of seat-furniture supplied by the Wakefield firm of Wright and Elwick to Burton Constable, Yorkshire, in 1773 (C. Gilbert, 'Wright and Elwick of Wakefield, 1748-1824: A Study of Provincial Patronage', Furniture History, 1976, pl. 13c). An open armchair of a more closely related pattern was sold from Swinton House, Yorkshire, in Christie's house sale, 20-21 October 1975, lot 17. It was also probably by Wright and Elwick who claimed to have fully furnished Swinton House for William Danby (ibid., p. 38).