A GEORGE I FIGURED WALNUT TRIPLE CHAIR-BACK SETTEE, AND ANOTHER EN SUITE, each with serpentine toprail divided by scallop-shells above acanthus-carved solid vase-shaped splats on shaped supports, the drop-in seats covered in differeing contemporary gros and petit point needlework, the serpentine arms with flowerhead terminals and on scrolled leaf-carved supports, with plain frieze edged with gadrooning and on short naturalistic legs headed by lion-mask and leaf-draped rings flanked by acanthus-scrolled angles, on paw feet, one adapted and incorporating later elements, differences of carving and arm profiles, one with three tipped back feet, both with paper label THE HAGUE COLLECTION, below a crest

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY "THE HAGUE SETTEES"

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A GEORGE I FIGURED WALNUT TRIPLE CHAIR-BACK SETTEE, AND ANOTHER EN SUITE, each with serpentine toprail divided by scallop-shells above acanthus-carved solid vase-shaped splats on shaped supports, the drop-in seats covered in differeing contemporary gros and petit point needlework, the serpentine arms with flowerhead terminals and on scrolled leaf-carved supports, with plain frieze edged with gadrooning and on short naturalistic legs headed by lion-mask and leaf-draped rings flanked by acanthus-scrolled angles, on paw feet, one adapted and incorporating later elements, differences of carving and arm profiles, one with three tipped back feet, both with paper label THE HAGUE COLLECTION, below a crest
73in.(185.5cm.)wide; 38½in.(97.5cm.)high; 26½in.(67.5cm.)deep (2)

Provenance

Percival D. Griffiths Esq., F. S. A.
H. R. H. The Duke of Kent
Sir Harry Hague
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

P. Macquoid & R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1924, vol. 3, p. 93, fig. 27
R. W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, London, 1929, p. 29, fig. 10
P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1959, rev. ed., vol. 3, p. 83, fig. 29
R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 449, fig. 21

Lot Essay

A figured-walnut card-table with a distinctively deep frieze and identical masks and carving to the tops of the legs was also in the collection of Percival D. Griffiths, Esq., F.S.A (d. 1937) from circa 1908 until his death, and subsequently in that of Geoffrey Blackwell, Esq., O.B.E. (d. 1943) (see: P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1927, vol. III, p. 193, fig. 25). It remains in an English private collection and is currently on loan to the National Trust at Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire.

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