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Lot Essay
This stool appears to have been adapted from a daybed with one raised end. 'Couch frames' of this form were supplied by Thomas Roberts to Sir Robert Walpole, later 1st Earl of Orford (d.1745), for the Yellow Drawing Room at Houghton in Norfolk. As the 24 April 1729 bill for the 'Yellow Cafffoy suite' reveals, Roberts supplied '12 fine wallnuttree Chair frames', 'a walnuttree Settee frame', 'a large and strong wallnuttree Couch frame, Crimson Damask strong ticker' on 21 October 1728 at the cost of £69 8s 3d, whilst a second 'large and strong wallnuttree Couch Frame' was supplied on 24 December 1728 at the cost of £4 10s (Houghton mss. RB 1. 57).
JIM JOEL
This long stool formed part of the collection assembled by H.J. (Jim) Joel. Like many other collectors of the middle years of the 20th century, Joel was advised by R.W. Symonds, the collection bearing his distinctive imprint. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Jim Joel's collection encompassed a wide variety of genres that included French furniture, Oriental rugs, English, European and Oriental porcelain; but especially close to his heart was a passion for Sporting Art, reflecting his love of The Turf. His father and uncle were pioneering British diamond merchants and founded the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited, known as Johnnies, of which Jim Joel was Chairman after his father Jack's death in 1940. His collection was sold in a monumental two-part Christie's house sale, at Childwick Bury, St. Albans on 15-17 May 1978 and the pictures sold in these Rooms, 23 June 1978. The contents of his London flat at 15 Grosvenor Square were sold in these Rooms on 17 April 1980 and the final portion was sold from the Stud House, Childwick Bury, Hertfordshire, Christie's, 1 April 1993.
JIM JOEL
This long stool formed part of the collection assembled by H.J. (Jim) Joel. Like many other collectors of the middle years of the 20th century, Joel was advised by R.W. Symonds, the collection bearing his distinctive imprint. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Jim Joel's collection encompassed a wide variety of genres that included French furniture, Oriental rugs, English, European and Oriental porcelain; but especially close to his heart was a passion for Sporting Art, reflecting his love of The Turf. His father and uncle were pioneering British diamond merchants and founded the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited, known as Johnnies, of which Jim Joel was Chairman after his father Jack's death in 1940. His collection was sold in a monumental two-part Christie's house sale, at Childwick Bury, St. Albans on 15-17 May 1978 and the pictures sold in these Rooms, 23 June 1978. The contents of his London flat at 15 Grosvenor Square were sold in these Rooms on 17 April 1980 and the final portion was sold from the Stud House, Childwick Bury, Hertfordshire, Christie's, 1 April 1993.