Lot Essay
These chairs and the corner chair (lot 457) once formed part of the celebrated collection of eighteenth century decorative arts formed by Judge Irwin Untermyer (d.1973). For some twenty years he served on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Board of Trustees, and his munifence as one of the Museum's greatest benefactors was recorded by its President Douglas Dillon in the Museum's catalogue Highlights of the Untermyer Collection of English and Continental Decorative Arts, 1977. Fine examples from Judge Irwin Untermyer's collection of furniture and needlework are currently on view in the English galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.