A SET OF THREE FRENCH GILTWOOD SALON CHAIRS,

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

Details

A SET OF THREE FRENCH GILTWOOD SALON CHAIRS,
In the Louis XV style, second half 19th Century

Upholstered in a floral Aubusson tapestry, on a crimson red ground, each with a foliate carved cresting, above the rectangular waisted padded back, with channeled frame and shaped seat, on cabriole legs (3)

Provenance

Probably acquired by Ogden Goelet, Long Island, New York.
By descent to his daughter Mary Goelet, who married Henry, 8th Duke of Roxburghe in 1903.
Thence by descent to the 10th Duke of Roxburghe, Floors Castle, Kelso, Roxburghshire, sold Christie's House sale, 17 September 1990, lot 94.

Lot Essay

These chairs are likely to have formed part of the fine collection of French furniture introduced to Floors Castle, Scotland, following the marriage in 1903 of Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe (d. 1932) to Mary Goelet. Much of the collection had furnished her father Ogden Goelet's mansion at Long Island, New York.

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