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This stool is part of a suite from Wentworth Woodhouse of which eight side chairs and two settees were sold at Christie's London, 15 July 1948, lot 62. What were almost certainly the eight side chairs were sold again by the Hon. Mrs Brian Rootes, at Christie's London, 8 February 1973, lot 483. One of the settees is in an English private collection and has a serpentine toprail and padded arm on scrolled mahogany supports. The following lot in the 1948 sale was three armchairs of this pattern: these are almost certainly the pair exhibited by Norman Adams at the Antique Dealers' Fair that year and possibly also the single armchair sold without provenance from the Henle collection, Sotheby's London, 6 February 1998, lot 91. A further pair of armchairs was sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 8-9 December 1989, lot 483, and another single chair was sold anonymously at Christie's London 13 November 1997, lot 69.
A suite of exactly the same model was first recorded at Hackwood Park, Hampshire in 1905 and remained in the Bolton family collection until Hackwood and its contents were sold to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose in 1935. One stool, exactly the same design but without the gilding, was sold anonymously [Property of a Nobleman], Christie's, London, 8 July 1999, lot 61 (£84,000). Another stool was sold anonymousy at Sotheby's London, 5 December 1988, lot 21. Three side chairs were sold in the Hackwood Park house sale, 20-22 April 1998, lots 119-120. Two pairs of bergères from this suite were sold by Lord Bolton, Christie's London, 24 June 1965, lot 17, and what was probably a pair from that four was sold again anonymously at Christie's London, 19 November 1992, lot 49, and offered again at Sotheby's London, 19 November 1993, lot 74. The suite was not recorded in the 18th century inventories of Hackwood and the sale catalogue speculated that it might have come from the 5th Duke of Bolton's London house. In the light of the Wentworth Woodhouse connection, it seems more likely the Hackwood suite came from Bolton Hall, the Bolton family's seat in Yorkshire, and that both suites were supplied by Wright and Elwick. In 1905, the year of the inventory at Hackwood in which they are first recorded, the Bolton family had recently been in residence at Hackwood following a fire at Bolton Hall. A move of some of the furniture therefore seems likely.
A further suite of this pattern, comprising settees, armchairs and chairs, is likely to have been commissioned by Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (d. 1772), for Powis Castle, Wales or Oakly Park, Shropshire, at the time he was employing the Cheshire architect William Baker (d.1771) to carry out improvements to both properties in the 1750s (M. Hall, 'Powis Castle', Country Life, 21 October 1993, p. 891, figs. 5 and 6).
A suite of exactly the same model was first recorded at Hackwood Park, Hampshire in 1905 and remained in the Bolton family collection until Hackwood and its contents were sold to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose in 1935. One stool, exactly the same design but without the gilding, was sold anonymously [Property of a Nobleman], Christie's, London, 8 July 1999, lot 61 (£84,000). Another stool was sold anonymousy at Sotheby's London, 5 December 1988, lot 21. Three side chairs were sold in the Hackwood Park house sale, 20-22 April 1998, lots 119-120. Two pairs of bergères from this suite were sold by Lord Bolton, Christie's London, 24 June 1965, lot 17, and what was probably a pair from that four was sold again anonymously at Christie's London, 19 November 1992, lot 49, and offered again at Sotheby's London, 19 November 1993, lot 74. The suite was not recorded in the 18th century inventories of Hackwood and the sale catalogue speculated that it might have come from the 5th Duke of Bolton's London house. In the light of the Wentworth Woodhouse connection, it seems more likely the Hackwood suite came from Bolton Hall, the Bolton family's seat in Yorkshire, and that both suites were supplied by Wright and Elwick. In 1905, the year of the inventory at Hackwood in which they are first recorded, the Bolton family had recently been in residence at Hackwood following a fire at Bolton Hall. A move of some of the furniture therefore seems likely.
A further suite of this pattern, comprising settees, armchairs and chairs, is likely to have been commissioned by Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (d. 1772), for Powis Castle, Wales or Oakly Park, Shropshire, at the time he was employing the Cheshire architect William Baker (d.1771) to carry out improvements to both properties in the 1750s (M. Hall, 'Powis Castle', Country Life, 21 October 1993, p. 891, figs. 5 and 6).