DECORATED ON BOTH SIDES

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A REGENCY OAK HALL BENCH
Decorated on both sides
With shaped rectangular panelled ends, mounted on each side with a composition crest of a man's head and shoulders, flanking a rectangular seat with bobbin-turned apron, on scrolled cabriole legs headed by lion masks, on paw feet with foliate collars
30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 50¼ in. (127.5 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Possibly commissioned by Peter Robert, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, 2nd Lord Gwydir (d. 1865) for Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire, Gwydir, Carnarvonshire or Drummond Castle, Perthshire.

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Lot Essay

The antiquarian seat is designed in the early 19th Century antique Elizabethan fashion with its Roman sarcophagus-scrolled trestles enriched with festive lion-heads and a ducally-crowned Saracen's head crest of the Earls of Lindsey, Barons Willoughby de Eresby, Bertie, Moncaster, Presland, Prestland and Willoughby families. It is wreathed by a bobbin-turned pearl string, which also features on antiquarian chairs designed in 1805 by Thomas Chippendale Junior (d. 1822) (J. Kenworthy-Browne, 'Notes on the Furniture by Thomas Chippendale the Younger at Stourhead', National Trust Year Book, 1975/1976, fig. 12).
It is possible that the seat may have been commissioned by Peter Robert, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, later 2nd Lord Gwydir (d. 1865) around the time of his marriage to the Hon. Clementina Drummond in 1807.

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