ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS HOW, CIRCA 1710

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A QUEEN ANNE GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS HOW, CIRCA 1710
The rectangular padded high back with rosette supports above a padded seat covered in later floral gros-point needlework, on pierced square tapering legs joined by foliate shaped stretchers with a central turned finial, on inscrolled foliate feet terminating in rosettes, two mahogany rails replaced in the 19th century, previously with castors, regilt
49 in. (125 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 27½ in. (67 cm.) deep

Provenance

Theresa, Lady Graham Montgomery, Kinross House, Perthshire and 25, Bruton Street; sold Winkworth & Co. [auctioneers], 9 April 1930, lot 75.
with M. Harris & Sons, Ltd.

Literature

M. Harris & Sons, The English Chair, London, 1946, p. 95, pl. XXIIIA.

Exhibited

London, Kensington Palace, Queen Mary II's Drawing Room, 2001-2010.

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Lot Essay

That a suite of seat-furniture survives at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire of almost identical form as the present lot, suggests that the current chair is likely to have been made in the same workshop. The Hatfield suite, comprising a pair of armchairs and six side chairs all in giltwood, was supplied to James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1691-1728) by Thomas How, of Jarman Street, Westminster in 1711 (A. Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, Woodbridge, 2002, p. 255-256, pls. 8:47 & 8:48). How supplied furnishings to Hatfield, in 1710-11 including a State bed, to the value of £830.

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