A PAIR OF INDIAN MARBLE ARMCHAIRS

PROBABLY JAIPUR, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF INDIAN MARBLE ARMCHAIRS
Probably Jaipur, second quarter 19th Century
Each with an arched back with pierced foliate arabesques above a rectangular pierced geometric panel, the sides with conforming panels ending in lotus-leaf finials, the rectangular seat on turned baluster legs, slight differences to carving, repairs to three front legs, an armrest and a finial (2)

Provenance

Probably aquired by Alfred Morrison at Fonthill House in the late 19th Century.
Thence by descent to the Rt. Hon. The Lord Margadale of Islay, T.D, Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire, Christie's house sale, 4 November 1971, lot 35.

Literature

G. de Bellaigue, The James A De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Furniture and Gilt Bronzes, Vol. I, London 1974, p. 680, no. 162 'Commentary'.

Lot Essay

These marble bergères, with their reeded baluster legs and flowered trellis tablets, are conceived in the exotic early 19th Century antiquarian manner combining the Mughal style with the Anglo-French 'Drawing Room Chair'. This seat pattern is generally associated with Northern India and in particular the Jaipur State. A pair of chairs, featuring related fret-work and bracket-buttressed legs, was acquired by Miss Alice de Rothschild (d. 1922) (G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London, 1974, vol. II, pp. 680-681). Related chairs were executed for the Bikaner Palace, Rajputana (M. Hayot, 'Marches Marbles Rose..', L'Oeil, June 1980, pp. 58-62).

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