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The stool relates to a design for a 'French' stool by John Mayhew, with trellis-work frame centred by acanthus-framed and scalloped cartouches supported on scrolled feet, published by Mayhew and Ince in The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, pl. LXI.
An almost identical stool was sold in the Samuel Messer Collection, in these Rooms, 5 December, 1991, lot 56. The Messer sale also included a pair of related stools (lot 57) which were probably part of a suite of seat-furniture acquired in the latter half of the 19th Century by the banker and antiquarian Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, M.P., of Barlow Hall, near Manchester, and later acquired by Sir John Ward, K.V.C.O., for Dudley House, London. The seat-furniture was subsequently sold by Colonel E.J.S. Ward, M.V.O., M.C., in these Rooms, 22 November 1962, lot 38.
Several pieces from Colonel Sherwood's collection were sold at Sotheby's London, 15 July 1966, lots 182-205, including (lot 198) the painted semi-elliptical commode now attibuted to George Brookshaw that was subsequently sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 29 January 1994, lot 352 ($107,000).
An almost identical stool was sold in the Samuel Messer Collection, in these Rooms, 5 December, 1991, lot 56. The Messer sale also included a pair of related stools (lot 57) which were probably part of a suite of seat-furniture acquired in the latter half of the 19th Century by the banker and antiquarian Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, M.P., of Barlow Hall, near Manchester, and later acquired by Sir John Ward, K.V.C.O., for Dudley House, London. The seat-furniture was subsequently sold by Colonel E.J.S. Ward, M.V.O., M.C., in these Rooms, 22 November 1962, lot 38.
Several pieces from Colonel Sherwood's collection were sold at Sotheby's London, 15 July 1966, lots 182-205, including (lot 198) the painted semi-elliptical commode now attibuted to George Brookshaw that was subsequently sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 29 January 1994, lot 352 ($107,000).