IN THE QUEEN ANNE STYLE, 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE SIMULATED OAK AND PARCEL GILT DINING CHAIRS
In the Queen Anne style, 19th century
The caned panel balloon shaped backs with interlaced decorated vase splats with pendant ornament with balloon shaped caned panel seats, the seat rails with shell ornament, on cabriole legs headed with shells and foliate scrolls, with claw-and-ball feet joined by undulating stretchers with shell ornament, one chair bearing a plastic label inscribed 'COWDRAY 142 1919', the other chairs inscribed with white paint 'C445-12' (12)

Provenance

Possibly the Viscounts Cowdray, Dunecht House, Aberdeenshire.

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Lot Essay

These chairs were possibly commissioned for Dunecht House, Aberdeenshire, following the purchase of the mansion in 1909 by Sir Weetman Pearson, later Baron Cowdray (1910) and Viscount Cowdray (d.1927), possibly at the time of his creation as Viscount Cowdray in 1917.

Following his purchase of the estate in 1909, Baron Cowdray had employed the architect Aston Webb to aggrandise the mansion (M.Hall, 'Dunecht House, Aberdeenshire', Country Life, 15 August 1991, pp.54-57 and 22 August 1991, pp.40-43).

Furniture bearing similar labels have been sold in these salerooms (for example, a carved oak panelled cupboard in a sale of Oak, Country Furniture, Folk Art, Works of Art and Sculpture on 3 July 2002, lot 434).

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