CIRCA 1820

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SIMULATED-ROSEWOOD FOOT-STOOLS
CIRCA 1820
Each of scrolled corbel form, covered in brown leather, the sides carved with a scrolled palmette, on reeded tapering feet, minor variations
10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) high; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Almost certainly Walter Ramsden Hawksworth Fawkes (d. 1825), Farnley Hall, Yorkshire and by descent until after 1954.

Literature

G. Nares, 'Farnley Hall, Yorkshire-II', Country Life, 27 May 1954, p. 1714, fig. 2 (illustrated in situ in The Saloon).

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Lot Essay

Walter Beaumont Ramsden Fawkes (d. 1795) employed John Carr of York to add a Georgian wing to the 16th century manor house overlooking the river Wharfe. The wing was built between 1786-1790 in the sober Palladian style typical of Carr. His son, Walter Ramsden Hawksworth Fawkes, became a lifelong friend and patron of the painter J. M. W. Turner and Farnley is famed for its collection of paintings and watercolours by Turner, mainly depicting either the interior or exterior of the house, or of the local landscape. The furnishings include a set of '10 Grecian Chairs, moulded frames stained to imitate ebony' and '2 large Grecian Couches to accord with above', supplied in 1808 by Thomas Carter, 141 Oxford Street at a cost of £125 3s 4d.

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