A MATCHED SET OF TEN OAK CHAIRS

SOUTH YORKSHIRE, LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A MATCHED SET OF TEN OAK CHAIRS
South Yorkshire, late 17th Century
Each with arched toprail and similar arched splat below, between uprights with scroll finials, variously carved with scrolls, foliage, masks and hatched decoration, some with split baluster mouldings to the uprights and all with drop finials, above a solid seat and with block and turned legs joined by square section side and back stretchers, the front stretchers variously turned, restorations, predominantly to feet and finials, some height variation, some seats ash (10)

Lot Essay

One of the chairs bears a brass plate engraved as follows 'THIS CHAIR BELONGED TO JOHN WESLEY'S FATHER AND WAS USED BY ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF WELLINGTON AT THE BAPTISM OF HER GODSON CHARLES MICHAEL ST MAUR WELLERSLEY WESLEY, IN HATCHFORD CHURCH, COBHAM, SURREY, 23RD JULY 1898 AT 3.30PM; THE OTHER SPONSORS BEING, ETHEL LADY RAGLAN, MISS GERTRUDE SEYMOUR, THE EARL OF SUFFOLK AND BERKSHIRE AND THE REV. E. O. KIRWAN. HOLY BAPTISM WAS ADMINISTERED BY HIS GRANDFATHER REV. H. SEYMOUR AND HE WAS RECEIVED INTO THE CHURCH BY HIS FATHER.'

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