BY MILES AND EDWARDS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SIMULATED-ROSEWOOD STOOLS
By Miles and Edwards
Each with rectangular top covered in brown buttoned leather, on ring-turned tapering legs and brass caps and castors with later wheels, each stamped 'MILES & EDWARDS 134 OXFORD ST LONDON', and with letter 'P', one stamped '1266', the other '1268'
15 in. (38 cm.) high; 34 in. (86.5 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

The prestigious firm of Miles & Edwards, recorded at 134 Oxford St between 1822-1844, supplied furniture to Audley End, Essex, Burton Constable, Yorkshire, Hopetoun House, Scotland and Wynyard Park, Co. Durham, possibly their largest single commission, for Charles William Vane (1778-1854), 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, between c. 1829-1841. After 1844 they were taken over by the firm of C. Hindley & Sons who moved from 32 Berners St. The firm adopted the practice of furniture numbering and the stamps on the present pair of stools may indicate a fairly early manufacture in the span of the firms' operation: a pair of rosewood chiffoniers of c. 1830, supplied to Wynyard Park are stamped '4586' and '4587', which may indicate that the present pair of stools date from the 1820s (F. Mallet, 'Miles and Edwards of London', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 73-80 and plates 34-37B; and G. Beard and C. Gilbert, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, p. 606).

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