Sale 1500
New York
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15 April 2005
Price realised
USD 3,840
Estimate
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY COMMODE CHAIR CIRCA 1765, LATER ADAPTED TO A COMMODE CHAIR The rectangular fret-carved back and sides over a hinged plank seat above panelled sides and an open back, bearing a printed Christie's label Furniture from St. Giles House June 26th 1980
Provenance
[Almost certainly] supplied to the 4th Earl of Shaftesbury (d. 1771) for St Giles's House, Dorset and by descent at St. Giles's until Sold by the late The Earl of Shaftesbury; Christie's, London, 26 June 1980, lot 39 [as a set of three armchairs together with a pair converted to commode chairs].
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See note to lot 302 (pair of chairs en suite).
Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY TRUST (LOTS 283-319)
With her high-piled ringlets, gold earrings and heavy black kohl, the woman portrayed in this funerary painting offers a glimpse of life almost 2,000 years ago
Hongmiao Shi gets the specialists’ perspectives on a quartet of precious artworks and objects available for immediate purchase