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Lot Essay
These chairs were part of a set of four supplied by Gillows for the two libraries at Hackwood, to accompany the pedestal desk, folio cabinet and reading-stand (lots 20-22 in this sale). It is a reflection of the extent to which Hackwood was furnished from the patterns readily available from Gillows that there is still considerable variety of decoration between the objects in just one room. At least one of the four chairs was still in the North Library in 1913.
Closely related bergeres appear in a Drawing Room elevation amongst Gillows' early 19th century watercolours for room elevations in the Victoria and Albert Museum (E.47-1952). The chairs in the watercolour have reading stands, just as described in Gillows' Memorandum.
An almost identical pair of chairs supplied by Gillows to Morton Davison, Esq., for Beamish Park, Co. Durham, were sold by Mrs. R.D. Shafto, Christie's London, 21 September 1995, lot 168.
Closely related bergeres appear in a Drawing Room elevation amongst Gillows' early 19th century watercolours for room elevations in the Victoria and Albert Museum (E.47-1952). The chairs in the watercolour have reading stands, just as described in Gillows' Memorandum.
An almost identical pair of chairs supplied by Gillows to Morton Davison, Esq., for Beamish Park, Co. Durham, were sold by Mrs. R.D. Shafto, Christie's London, 21 September 1995, lot 168.