Lot Essay
The stool frames, designed for an elliptic window bay, are wrapped by palms and an Etruscan pearled ribbon band in the manner of white and gold armchairs invoiced in 1786 by Francis Gilding (d. 1796) for Audley End, Essex (see J. Cornforth, 'Audley End, Essex - II', Country Life, 3 January l99l, p. 41, fig. 8).
Their fluted legs, with reed-clustered capitals, relate to those of armchairs supplied for Harewood House, Yorkshire in the late 1770s by the St. Martin's Lane firm of Thomas Chippendale Senior and Junior (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, p. 114, fig. 119).
Their fluted legs, with reed-clustered capitals, relate to those of armchairs supplied for Harewood House, Yorkshire in the late 1770s by the St. Martin's Lane firm of Thomas Chippendale Senior and Junior (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, p. 114, fig. 119).