ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM MASTERS

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A PAIR OF SCOTTISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
Attributed to William Masters
Each with waved toprail and rectangular padded back and padded seat with two rows of close-nailing, covered in cream and pink foliate silk damask, on square fretwork-panelled legs chamfered to the inner corners, joined by pierced fretwork stretchers, one chair lacking one front cross-strutt, the back seat-rail inscribed in pencil 'R...Dr room', with label inscribed in pencil 'Derby room', one side bracket replaced, the other chair with repair to one front bracket, later rear blocks, pencil inscription on back seatrail 'red passage' (2)

来源

Supplied to John Murray (d. 1764), 2nd Duke of Atholl for Blair Castle, Perthshire and by descent to the present owner.

出版

LITERATURE FOR THE SUITE
A. Coleridge, 'William Masters and some early 18th Century furniture at Blair Castle, Scotland', Connoisseur, October 1963, p. 81.
S.J. Flower, The Stately Homes of Britain, London, 1982, p. 149.
H. Montgomery-Massingberd & C. Simon-Sykes, Great Houses of Scotland, London, 1997, p. 20.

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

This pair of mahogany fretwork-carved side chairs form part of a long set that was supplied by the cabinet-maker William Masters of Coventry Street, Piccadilly, to the 2nd Duke of Atholl (d. 1764). The set included at least fifty side chairs, several stools and open armchairs, and was invoiced by Masters in 1756 and 1760 as having 'fret down legs, under rails cut open' (A. Coleridge, op. cit, p. 81). Most of the set survives at Blair Castle and is illustrated in Blair Castle, Guide Book, n.d., p. 20 (The Red Bedroom). Two pairs from the set were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 6 July 2000, lots 53 (£15,275 inc. premium) and 54 (£16,450 inc. premium).