A GEORGE I WALNUT AND BEECH WING ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1715

Details

A GEORGE I WALNUT AND BEECH WING ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1715
Covered in 18th century petit point needlework depicting figural groups framed by landscapes, on lappet-carved cabriole legs and pad feet

Provenance

[By repute] The Duchess of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.
Richard Dawnay, 10th Viscount Downe (d. 1965), Wykeham Abbey, Yorkshire.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.

Literature

M. Jourdain, 'Furniture at Wykeham Abbey - I', Apollo, vol. 46, October 1947, p. 80, fig. IV.
Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 58-59, figs. 81-82.
Y. Hackenbroch, English and other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960, pl. 102 (color), 101-102, figs. 140-141.

Lot Essay

As Margaret Jourdain notes in her Apollo article, many of the furnishings at Wykeham Abbey were inherited and transferred from Dingley Hall, Northamptonshire. However, Lord Downe was also himself a collector and given the chair's purported provenance of the Duchess of Marlborough, this was likely one of his purchases.

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