拍品专文
These exceptional chairs originally formed part of a set at Chilham Castle, Kent with the unusual feature of the Queen's head in the crest
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LATE 17TH CENTURY
细节
A PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT HIGH-BACK CANED CHAIRS
LATE 17TH CENTURY
Each with elaborately-carved pierced cresting depicting a central crowned female bust flanked by buxom mermaids, above a caned panel between pierced foliate uprights and flanked by outer foliate-carved columns, with conforming front stretcher and mermaid front legs and with flattened scroll-carved cross-stretcher
Each 54 in. (138 cm.) high
LATE 17TH CENTURY
Each with elaborately-carved pierced cresting depicting a central crowned female bust flanked by buxom mermaids, above a caned panel between pierced foliate uprights and flanked by outer foliate-carved columns, with conforming front stretcher and mermaid front legs and with flattened scroll-carved cross-stretcher
Each 54 in. (138 cm.) high
来源
Chilham Castle, Kent
出版
Dictionary of English Furniture, Macquoid & Edwards, 1924, Vol 1, page 213, fig.37
注意事项
This lot will be removed to an off-site warehouse at the close of business on the day of sale - 2 weeks free storage