MID-19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND EBONISED SIDE CHAIRS
MID-19TH CENTURY
Each with a rectangular padded back and seat covered in close-nailed green leather, the back centred by the Dick crest, a stag's head, with the motto 'VIRTUTE', between ring-turned columns, with a channelled apron, on ring-turned legs joined by conforming stretchers, with block feet and brass castors, the castors stamped 'COPES PATENT', two inscribed in pencil 'G-S', the seats releathered (6)

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to William W.F. Hume Dick, Esq. for Humewood, Kiltegan, co. Wicklow and by descent at Humewood until the late 20th Century.

Literature

J. O'Brien and D. Guinness, Great Irish Houses and Castles, London, 1994, p. 223 (a pair illustrated on the staircase).

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The crest is that of Dick of Braid, Scotland.
This set of chairs comes from Humewood, Co. Wicklow, the large Victorian mansion built as a holiday house for W.W.F. Hume Dick in 1867. Both his architect and contracter were Englishmen, namely William White and Albert Kimberley, and the product was an enormous Gothic country house whose irregular roofline is silhouetted against the Wicklow mountains. The house remained in the family until the latter part of the 20th Century.

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