THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE
(Lots 52-53)
A CHINESE EXPORT PADOUK SETTEE
Details
A CHINESE EXPORT PADOUK SETTEE
SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
En suite with the preceding lot, the pierced back with scrolling foliate trails and outswept arms with shepherd's crook and with an additional turned support, above the drop-in seat covered in green and red striped wool needlework, the seatrail with scrolling foliate trails, above cabriole legs headed by conforming decoration and terminating in club feet with grotesque mask, the central back leg with later block
55in. (140cm.) wide
SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
En suite with the preceding lot, the pierced back with scrolling foliate trails and outswept arms with shepherd's crook and with an additional turned support, above the drop-in seat covered in green and red striped wool needlework, the seatrail with scrolling foliate trails, above cabriole legs headed by conforming decoration and terminating in club feet with grotesque mask, the central back leg with later block
55in. (140cm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 17 March 1967, lot 121