CIRCA 1720

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A PAIR OF GEORGE I WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
CIRCA 1720
Each with lobed toprail and solid vase-shaped splat above a floral gros-point needlework drop-in seat, on cabriole legs and pad feet, one with paper label 'CECILIA COUNTESS OF STRATHMORE' and incised VI, both with paper labels inscribed '324' and '325'
38 in. (96.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Cecilia, Countess of Strathmore (1862–1938), grandmother to H.M. The Queen.

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Lot Essay

These side chairs display a typed label for 'Cecilia, Countess of Strathmore', a title which only applied between 1904-1922. As this appears to denote the chairs were her own property, it might suggest that they were inherited directly from her own family, her father being a grandson of the 4th Duke of Portland and Cecilia herself being a great-grandaughter of Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley, brother of Napoleon's vanquisher the 1st Duke of Wellington. Equally plausible, however, is that they could have been given or inherited from her husband's family. Cecilia married Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1881, and they made Glamis Castle in Angus their home, where their youngest daughter, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother was brought up.

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