A GEORGE I GILT-GESSO SIDE CHAIR

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A GEORGE I GILT-GESSO SIDE CHAIR
The padded back with dished toprail and rounded seat covered in brown velvet, on cabriole legs headed by stylised scallop-shells and with scrolled angles, on foliate-carved pad feet, partially re-railed, extensive losses to gesso, the ears replaced

Provenance

Possibly the Dukes of Bolton in the 18th Century and by descent to
William, 4th Baron Bolton (1845-1922), certainly by 1905
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954).
Thence by descent.

Literature

The 1905 Hampton and Sons inventory, the Billiard and Sitting Room: 'A Queen Anne chair with stuffed seat and back covered in canvas on 4 carved gilt cabriole legs'

Special notice

VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

Lot Essay

This early 18th Century drawing-room side chair is one of Hackwood's furniture enigmas. It is definitely a Bolton object because it is recorded in the 1905 inventory. However, it pre-dates Vardy's house of circa 1760 and the 1765 inventory gives the impression of a house completely refurnished in a fashionable style, leaving a small possibility that this chair survived from the earlier house.

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