A PAIR OF EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY STOOLS

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A PAIR OF EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY STOOLS
Each with oval removable drop-in seat covered in associated 18th Century Beauvais tapestry woven with wools and silks with sprays of flowers on an ivory ground, the veneered seat-rail raised on acanthus- headed cabriole legs with scroll feet with acanthus carving, the underside of one drop-in seat with a fragment of the original floral needlework on an ivory silk ground, the other with Norman Adams label and one block inscribed in pencil 'music stool', the tips of seven ears with small section lacking and two tips of the ears replaced, one stool with a 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) patch of veneer to one seat-rail, the other stool with two small patches of veneer to seat-rail
18½ in. (47 cm.) high; 23¾ in. (60.5 cm.) wide; 18 in. (45.8 cm.) deep (2)

來源

Probably supplied to Tristram Hudleston Jervoise (d.1794), Herriard Park, Hampshire, and by descent with the house to
The late Major F.H.T. Jervoise, sold Sotheby's London, 11 February 1966, lot 150.
Bought from Norman Adams, 21 February 1966.

出版

C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, rev. ed., 1985, p. 46-7, and p. 60, col. pls. 6a and 6b ('These stools remain in remarkably original condition with no restoration whatsoever').

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拍品專文

The stools are likely to have been commissioned by Tristram Hudleston Jervoise (d.1794) following his inheritance in 1762 of Herriard Park, Hampshire (C. Hussey, 'Herriard Park', Country Life, 1 July 1965, p. 21). Their Roman form reflects the George III fashion for decorating with medallions and tablets 'a l'antique'. Roman foliage wraps their scrolled Roman-truss legs and issues from their feet, which are gracefully whorled in the Ionic manner.
This style of furniture was introduced in the early 1760s under the direction of the court architect Sir William Chambers (d.1796) for Queen Charlotte's Buckingham House (now Palace). Similar stools, upholstered in red damask, formed part of the contemporary furniishings supplied by the court upholsterer William Vile for the Queen's House 'Warm' Drawing Room and illustrated in Johann Zoffany's 1764 portrait of George, Prince of Wales and Prince Frederick (C. Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-century Decoration, London, 1993, pp. 252 and 253).