Lot Essay
Thurstaston Hall, Cheshire is a house of circa 1680 with medieval origins (N. Pevsner and E. Hubbard, The Buildings of England, Cheshire, London, 1971, p. 362).
Details
AN EARLY GEORGIAN WALNUT AND ELM ARMCHAIR
The waved toprail centered by confronting stylised eagle-heads above a pierced vertical tapering splat and a padded drop-in seat covered in red leather, the shepherd's-crook padded arms covered in red leather, with S-scroll sides, the moulded front seatrail with a foliate clasp, on cabriole legs headed by scrolled acanthus, on pad feet, with an engraved brass plaque: 'Chair from Thurstaston Hall. COL. J.B. GLEGG, formerly the Whitmore's.', the arms adapted into a bergère and enriched with applied carving in the 19th Century
The waved toprail centered by confronting stylised eagle-heads above a pierced vertical tapering splat and a padded drop-in seat covered in red leather, the shepherd's-crook padded arms covered in red leather, with S-scroll sides, the moulded front seatrail with a foliate clasp, on cabriole legs headed by scrolled acanthus, on pad feet, with an engraved brass plaque: 'Chair from Thurstaston Hall. COL. J.B. GLEGG, formerly the Whitmore's.', the arms adapted into a bergère and enriched with applied carving in the 19th Century
Provenance
Thurstaston Hall, Cheshire.
Colonel J.B. Glegg.
Colonel J.B. Glegg.