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ALMOST CERTAINLY DESIGNED BY JAMES 'ATHENIAN' STUART AND PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY JOHN GORDON, CIRCA 1758-65
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II SABICU STOOLS
ALMOST CERTAINLY DESIGNED BY JAMES 'ATHENIAN' STUART AND PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY JOHN GORDON, CIRCA 1758-65
En suite, each with a padded shaped rectangular seat upholstered in gold cut-velvet, above serpentine arched and fluted rails centred by palmflower-carved beaded reserves, on fluted and beaded cabriole legs each headed by a palm-leaf cartouche and with scrolled feet, both with batten carrying-holes in the corner struts, one with carrying-holes in the short side rails, two tenons repaired to each
19 in. (49 cm.) high; 31 in. (79 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep (2)
ALMOST CERTAINLY DESIGNED BY JAMES 'ATHENIAN' STUART AND PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY JOHN GORDON, CIRCA 1758-65
En suite, each with a padded shaped rectangular seat upholstered in gold cut-velvet, above serpentine arched and fluted rails centred by palmflower-carved beaded reserves, on fluted and beaded cabriole legs each headed by a palm-leaf cartouche and with scrolled feet, both with batten carrying-holes in the corner struts, one with carrying-holes in the short side rails, two tenons repaired to each
19 in. (49 cm.) high; 31 in. (79 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Supplied to John Spencer, later 1st Earl Spencer (1734-83), almost certainly for the Ground Floor Apartments at Spencer House, London.
Thence by descent to George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), by whom possibly moved to the new Holland Library at Althorp House, Northamptonshire by 1814.
Thence by descent to John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910), where they are recorded in the Picture Gallery and Old Breakfast Room by 1892 and thence by descent.
Thence by descent to George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), by whom possibly moved to the new Holland Library at Althorp House, Northamptonshire by 1814.
Thence by descent to John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910), where they are recorded in the Picture Gallery and Old Breakfast Room by 1892 and thence by descent.
Literature
H. Avray Tipping, 'Althorp I', Country Life, 11 June 1921, p. 719. a pair of stools photographed in The Picture Gallery
Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), Althorp, Furniture, Vol. I, circa 1937 and later
'Treasures from Althorp', Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1970, F11
P. Thornton and J. Hardy, 'The Spencer Furniture at Althorp; Section II: James Stuart's neo-Classical furniture from Spencer House and the work of Gordon the chair-maker', Apollo, June 1968, vol. LXXXVII, no. 76, p. 445, fig. 8 and p. 446
J. Cooper, The Opulent Eye, Late Victorian and Edwardian Taste in Interior Design, London, 1976, p. 110, pl. 58, one short stool photographed in 1892 in The Long Gallery, Althorp
Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), Althorp, Furniture, Vol. I, circa 1937 and later
'Treasures from Althorp', Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1970, F11
P. Thornton and J. Hardy, 'The Spencer Furniture at Althorp; Section II: James Stuart's neo-Classical furniture from Spencer House and the work of Gordon the chair-maker', Apollo, June 1968, vol. LXXXVII, no. 76, p. 445, fig. 8 and p. 446
J. Cooper, The Opulent Eye, Late Victorian and Edwardian Taste in Interior Design, London, 1976, p. 110, pl. 58, one short stool photographed in 1892 in The Long Gallery, Althorp
Exhibited
London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Treasures from Althorp, 1970.
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