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Lot Essay
The stool is conceived in the George II 'Roman' fashion with truss-pilaster legs terminating in bacchic lion-paws, and knees wrapped by Roman acanthus issuing from wave-scrolled cartouches that are imbricated with 'Venus' dolphin scales.
In 1737 the Long Acre chair-maker Henry Williams (d. 1758) supplied related stools, with truss pilaster and paw feet and with wave-scrolls, scales and foliate ornament (R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 506, fig. 37).
A pair of stools of this model, but without the ankle collars and with associated 18th century needlework seat covers, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 4 July 2002, lot 140.
In 1737 the Long Acre chair-maker Henry Williams (d. 1758) supplied related stools, with truss pilaster and paw feet and with wave-scrolls, scales and foliate ornament (R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 506, fig. 37).
A pair of stools of this model, but without the ankle collars and with associated 18th century needlework seat covers, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 4 July 2002, lot 140.