19TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY STOOL
19TH CENTURY
With rectangular padded seat covered in yellow silk-damask, above an ogee arched frieze and pierced Gothic tapering legs with foliate carved quadripartite feet, the seat rail with fragmentary typed depository label 'A. ROBBINS & SONS LTD, REMOVERS AND STORERS, FARNHAM, SURREY. H ... 62'
18 in. (46 cm.) high; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

James Lane Jefferson; Christie's New York, 18 October 2001, lot 50.

Literature

S. Malsten, Dealer's Choice: A Showcase for Museum Pieces in North Carolina, December 1984, p. 70.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

The 'gothic' stool's open-fretted legs relate in part to a 'Back Stool' chair pattern in Messrs. Ince & Mayhew'’s, Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762 (pl. LV [55]). A serpentine-railed stool of the present pattern was formerly in the Sandridgebury collection assembled by Percival Griffiths (d.1937) (P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1927, vol. III, p.172, fig. 46).

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