CIRCA 1820

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A SUITE OF LOUIS XVIII GILTWOOD SEAT FURNITURE
CIRCA 1820
Comprising eight fauteuils, two bergères and two canapés, each beaded frame carved with foliage and covered in green silk damask, the bergères with squab cushions, each fauteuil with remains of a paper label
The fauteuils: 37 ¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 21 ½ in. (54.5 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep
The bergère: 37 ¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 26 ¼ in. (67 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep
The canapés: 37 ¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 82 ½ in. (210 cm.) and 53 in. (135 cm.) wide, respectively; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Provenance

Charles Winn (d. 1874), Tapestry Room, Nostell Priory, Wakefield, Yorkshire, and by descent to,
Lord St. Oswald; sold Christie's, London, 5 July 2007, lot 215.

Literature

'Nostell Priory, Yorkshire: A Seat of Lord St. Oswald', Country Life, 27 April 1907, p. 595, 'Tapestry Saloon'.
C. Hussey, 'Nostell Priory, Yorkshire - III. The Property of the Trustees of the Late Lord St. Oswald.', Country Life, 30 May 1952, p.1655, fig. 11, illustrated in the tapestry drawing room.
'Nostell Priory, Yorkshire: entièrement décoré par Adam et Chippendale', Connaissance des Arts, no. 155, January 1965, p. 57, fig. 3.

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Sale room notice

The canapés are of different widths and the measurements should read ‘82½ in. (210 cm.) and 53 in. (135 cm.) wide, respectively’ and not as written in the printed catalogue

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Lot Essay

This splendid suite would appear to have been amongst the furniture introduced at Nostell Priory, Wakefield, Yorkshire by Charles Winn following his marriage to Priscilla Strickland in 1819 and the modernisation of the rooms under the Frith Street decorator Thomas Ward. Their architecture relates to that of the Tapestry Room's circular 'Loo' table and companion writing-table (see Christie's sale at Nostell Priory, 30 April-lst May 1990, lot 357). These chairs are conceived in the full-blown Louis XVI manner, but were in fact executed in the first years of the Restauration circa 1820.

Nostell Priory was erected by Sir Rowland Winn, 4th baronet (d.1765) under the supervision of architect Thomas Paine (d.1789). The furnishings were provided by Thomas Chippendale (d.1775) and the Nostell commission is regarded as one of his most important.

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