A SET OF TWELVE REGENCY MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

STAMPED BY JAMES WINTER, 101 WARDOUR STREET, SOHO, LONDON

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A SET OF TWELVE REGENCY MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Stamped by James Winter, 101 Wardour Street, Soho, London
Comprising two open armchairs and ten side chairs, each reeded overall with a curved and back-scrolled tablet toprail inlaid with an ebony line, above a horizontal splat and uprights, the armchairs with straight arms on scrolled and fluted serpentine supports, above a padded seat covered in yellow watered silk, on ring-turned tapering reeded legs and pinched tapering feet, the armchairs with brass caps and castors, seven chairs stamped 'JAMES WINTER 101 WARDOUR ST. SOHO, LONDON', one chair inscribed in pencil 'No 2741 CW.0.0', minor restorations (12)

Provenance

By repute supplied to Thomas Newman Bardwell, Esq. (d.1865), Bolton Hall, Yorkshire.
Thence by descent at Bolton Hall until sold in the 1980s.

Lot Essay

James Winter was a retailer of furniture who founded his business at 107 Wardour Street in 1823. The business survived until 1870, when it was operating from 151, 153 and 155 Wardour Street (The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 992-3 and C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 47 and figs. 1020-3).

Bolton Hall, Fangfoss, Yorkshire, is a Georgian five-bay house with a three-bay pediment (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London, 1992, p. 227).

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