A PAIR OF WALNUT, PARCEL-GILT AND VERRE EGLOMISE SIDE CHAIRS

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细节

A PAIR OF WALNUT, PARCEL-GILT AND VERRE EGLOMISE SIDE CHAIRS
The paper-scrolled toprail and S-scroll stiles flanking a vase-shaped splat centred by a symmetrical acanthus spray above an armorial panel of deep blue and gilt glass, above further paper scrolls and a shaped padded drop-in seat covered in embroidery depicting multi-coloured flowers on a mauve background, the apron centred by an anthemion, on scrolled cabriole legs, and blind fretwork faceted bun feet, the embroidery dated 'V.R. 1938' one chair and drop-in seat incised 'IIII', the other chair incised 'VI' and the drop-in seat 'II', the glass panel covered over with transparent plastic, restorations (2)

拍品专文

The prototype for this pair of chairs, with legs terminating in scalloped feet after the early 18th Century Dublin fashion, was a suite of furniture from the collection of the late Sir Walter Gilbey, sold Knight, Frank and Rutley, 30 June 1922, lot 325. Whereas the latter's splats were fretted with flower-vases, this pair of chairs have glass vèrre églomisé tablets in the manner of a suite of heraldic-decorated George I furniture displaying the arms of Nicholas, 4th Earl of Scarsdale (P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. I, p. 256, fig. 93). The Scarsdale chairs, celebrated since being displayed at the Brussels Exposition Universelle in 1910, were later copied by White and Allom. A pair of chairs by White and Allom was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 18 February 1983, lot 295 (W. Rieder, 'Eighteenth-Century chairs in the Untermyer Collection', Apollo, March 1978, pp. 181-5).