拍品專文
A suite of this pattern, comprising settees, armchairs and chairs, are likely to have been commissioned by Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl Powis (d. 1772), for Powis Castle, Wales or Oakly Park, Shropshire, at the time that he was employing the Cheshire architect William Baker (d.1771) to carry out improvements to both properties in the early 1750s (M. Hall, 'Powis Castle', Country Life, 21 October 1993, p. 81, figs. 5 and 6.).
A pair of armchairs of this pattern were exhibited by Norman Adam Ltd., at the Antique Dealer's Fair and Exhibition, 1948. In the same year a suite of eight side chairs, two settees and three armchiars of the same pattern were sold by Earl Fitzwilliam's Wentworth Woodhouse Estates Company, in these Rooms, 15 July 1948, lots 62 and 63
A pair of chairs of this model was sold anonymously Sotheby's New York, 8-9 December 1989, lot 483.
A pair of armchairs of this pattern were exhibited by Norman Adam Ltd., at the Antique Dealer's Fair and Exhibition, 1948. In the same year a suite of eight side chairs, two settees and three armchiars of the same pattern were sold by Earl Fitzwilliam's Wentworth Woodhouse Estates Company, in these Rooms, 15 July 1948, lots 62 and 63
A pair of chairs of this model was sold anonymously Sotheby's New York, 8-9 December 1989, lot 483.