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拍品專文
These Chinese-latticed parlour chairs reflect the 'Modern' style introduced in the 1750s with their fusion of Roman form combined with the Chinese style encouraged by the seat patterns issued in William Chambers, Designs of Chinese Buildings, 1757. Their backs include 'double braced paling' as featured in William Halfpenny's Twenty New Designs of Chinese Lattice, 1750; and their lozenged splat relates to one engraved in Matthias Darly's New Book of Chinese, Gothic and Modern Chairs, 1751; and later reiussued in R. Manwaring, The Chair-Maker's Guide, 1766, pl. 43 (E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 82). Such Chinese-railed chairs well suited to the floral Chinese-papered bedroom apartments of the period, particularly the dressing-rooms, which served as reception and tea-rooms.
The same fret and pillar pattern appears on a set of six elm chairs from Fineshade Abbey, Stamford, Lincolnshire (M. Harris & Sons, The English Chair, London, 1946, pl. LXIX); and these relate in turn to a set of eight beechwood chairs sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 7 November 1985, lot 77.
Myron C. Taylor (1874-1959), in 1932 succeeded J. P. Morgan Jr. as Chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. From 1939-1950, he was the Personal Representative of the President to Pope Pius XII, and until 1952, the Personal Representative of the President on Special Missions. He was concerned mainly with investigating religious and political situations in Europe and his extensive collection of early and mid-18th Century English and American Furniture, porcelain, silver, textiles, rugs, paintings & drawings was sold in a 3-day sale at Parke-Bernet Galleries in November 1960, while a remarkable group of Gothic and Renaissance furniture and sculpture, old master paintings, oriental carpets, ten Gothic tapestries and a group of French and Venetian 18th Century Furniture was sold on 11-12 November 1960, all of which had been removed from their residences at 16 East 70th Street and Killingworth, Locust Valley, Long Island.
The same fret and pillar pattern appears on a set of six elm chairs from Fineshade Abbey, Stamford, Lincolnshire (M. Harris & Sons, The English Chair, London, 1946, pl. LXIX); and these relate in turn to a set of eight beechwood chairs sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 7 November 1985, lot 77.
Myron C. Taylor (1874-1959), in 1932 succeeded J. P. Morgan Jr. as Chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. From 1939-1950, he was the Personal Representative of the President to Pope Pius XII, and until 1952, the Personal Representative of the President on Special Missions. He was concerned mainly with investigating religious and political situations in Europe and his extensive collection of early and mid-18th Century English and American Furniture, porcelain, silver, textiles, rugs, paintings & drawings was sold in a 3-day sale at Parke-Bernet Galleries in November 1960, while a remarkable group of Gothic and Renaissance furniture and sculpture, old master paintings, oriental carpets, ten Gothic tapestries and a group of French and Venetian 18th Century Furniture was sold on 11-12 November 1960, all of which had been removed from their residences at 16 East 70th Street and Killingworth, Locust Valley, Long Island.