Lot 35
35
A PAIR OF REGENCY GRAINED AND CREAM-PAINTED KLISMOS CHAIRS
A PAIR OF REGENCY GRAINED AND CREAM-PAINTED KLISMOS CHAIRS
A PAIR OF REGENCY GRAINED AND CREAM-PAINTED KLISMOS CHAIRS
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 2… Read more PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTOR (LOTS 35 - 40) These 'klismos' chairs, their form inspired by similar designs in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807), and originally a set of five, were almost certainly acquired by Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (d. 1820) who, strongly influenced by Regency fashion, refurbished the Entrance Hall at Harewood House, Yorkshire in the 'Egyptian style'. The furniture comprised the present chairs, 'upholstered with curving scimitar legs back and front, inlaid probably with brass', a table with lion monopodium pedestal and scagliola top, a pair of brass-inlaid writing-tables with paw feet and a pair of stools ornamented with lions' heads (M. Mauchline, Harewood House, 1974, p. 121). Three of the chairs from the set were photographed by Country Life in the Entrance Hall in 1914 (A.T. Bolton, 'Harewood House, Yorkshire, the seat of the Earl of Harewood', 4 July 1914, p. 19).
A PAIR OF REGENCY GRAINED AND CREAM-PAINTED KLISMOS CHAIRS

CIRCA 1820

Details
A PAIR OF REGENCY GRAINED AND CREAM-PAINTED KLISMOS CHAIRS
CIRCA 1820
Each with curved tablet back centred by a flowerhead flanked by anthemion, above close-nailed red and black woven horsehair seat, on sabre legs, one with black painted 'FM'
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood, for Harewood House, Yorkshire and thence by descent until
Sold Christie's, London, 1 April 1976, lot 53.
Literature
A.T.Bolton, 'Harewood House, Yorkshire', Country Life, 4 July 1914, p.19.
G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 261, fig. 7.
E. Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam, His Interiors, New Haven and London, 2001, p. 137, fig. 199.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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