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Click here to subscribeA 19th century oak settle with panelled back raised on tapering column supports, width 189cm.Additional InformationHeavy wear throughout, the padded seat has been a much later addition. Shows signs of being a much used piece of furniture a few chips to the back moulding, splits to the panel backs, panel backs loose in parts, height 100cm, depth 62cm.
A good Elizabeth I joined oak panel-back open armchair, circa 1590Of bold design, having a double-scroll outlined cresting positioned over the uprights and carved with a jewelled edge and bold sunken-gadrooned hung motifs, the lozenge-carved back panel within prominent nulled-carved horizontal rails, the relatively flat scroll-ended open arms on baluster-turned supports, the boarded seat with ovolo-moulded edge, the seat rails centred by flat run-moulding, on short inverted-baluster turned front legs, joined by plain stretchers all round, 62.5cm wide x 65cm deep x 99cm high, (24 1/2in wide x 25 1/2in deep x 38 1/2in high)
An Elizabeth I oak pew, or bench, circa 1560Each thick slab-end surmounted by a well-carved downswept leafy-scroll, the open back with a deep run-moulded horizontal rail, single seat board, 132cm wide x 30cm deep x 85cm high, (51 1/2in wide x 11 1/2in deep x 33in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Collection of William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) The label reading 'S / B Lot No. 700 / Art. No. 492' to this pew indicates that it (and its pair in the following lot) were once in the collection of the American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. The letters 'S' and 'B' refer to his 'Southern Boulevard' warehouse in the Bronx [see J. Milosch & N. Pearce (eds.), Collecting & Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (2019), p. 84, for mention of other objects in his collection bearing the same label being stored in this warehouse].This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A Queen Anne joined oak table-stool, circa 1710The single-piece ovolo-moulded top with chamfered under-edge, plain frieze rails, on baluster-turned legs, joined all round by upper-edge moulded stretchers, turned feet, 50cm wide x 33.5cm deep x 59cm high, (19 1/2in wide x 13in deep x 23in high)Footnotes:Inventory number '5522' stencilled to the underside of the seat board.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A rare Charles II joined oak panel-back and box-seat child's open armchair, South-West Yorkshire, circa 1670Having a back panel carved with a flowering stem, beneath a double-scroll carved cresting and matching 'ears', uprights carved with flowering-vine, and downswept scroll-ended open arms on ring-turned front supports, the box-base with panelled seat and sides, 45.5cm wide x 44.5cm deep x 68cm high, (17 1/2in wide x 17 1/2in deep x 26 1/2in high)Footnotes:See Tobias Jellinek Early British Chairs and Seats 1500 to 1700 (2009), for a child's armchair, again from Yorkshire, p. 150. pl. 170.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
An unusual early 17th joined oak and upholstered backstool, dated 1618The open-back with a tall arched scroll-edged cresting carved with a bat cartouche flanked by the date '16' '18', framed by flowing guilloche which extends to the uprights, with female head and bare torso finials, the stuff-over seat upholstered in olive silk-velvet, with fringe, on columnar-turned legs joined all round by plain stretchers, 44cm wide x 41cm deep x 87cm high, (17in wide x 16in deep x 34in high)Footnotes:A comparable chair, with a lion mask instead of a bat, formerly at Allington Castle, Kent, is illustrated Margaret Jourdain, English Decoration and Furniture of the Early Renaissance 1500-1650, p. 251, fig. 342. The chair is acknowledged as being in the collection of Maidstone Museum, Kent. See Christa Grossinger, The World Upside-Down, English Misericords (1997), p. 143, pl. 215, for an English misericord depicting a bat, St. Martins Church, Herne, Kent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
An extremely rare and documented Elizabeth I oak so-called Glastonbury chair, West Country, circa 1570Of pegged construction, the raked back of three boards, typically carved with paired guilloche-filled arches but unusually centred by a defaced shield framed by well-carved floral scrolls, the scroll-shaped cresting line-carved with pairs of downward-pointing leaves, the centre again defaced, each back upright with multiple fine run-mouldings and integral pyramidal-finial, the arms with accentuated raised 'elbow-rest', the seat of two boards grooved into run-moulded side rails, and with hand-shaped 'rod-form' front and rear rails, the simple legs forming X-form side supports, joined by a hand-shaped central stretcher, 61cm wide x 56cm deep x 101cm high, (24in wide x 22in deep x 39 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:The celebrated John Fardon Collection.Illustrated:Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500 to 1700 (2009), p. 123, pl. 133. Described by the author as 'a very fine and intriguing chair. The back is well carved'.Although this chair has the appearance of a folding-chair, it cannot actually fold. Instead, constructed using removable pegs, it is designed to be taken apart, in the manner of campaign furniture. The generic name 'Glastonbury Chair' is believed to originate from a chair reputedly made for John Arthur Thorne, the last Treasurer of Glastonbury Abbey, executed in 1539, the year the Abbey was dissolved. A carved Latin inscription to the cresting rails reads 'John Arthur, Monk of Glastonbury, may God save him, Praise be to God, Lord give Peace'. The inscription would suggest that the chair was most likely made in Thorne's memory, post 1539. The chair is now in the Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset. It is highly likely this chair's defaced shield had a coat of arms. Furthermore, the cresting presumably had ownership initials, either side of a classic triform leaf motif (see ibid., p. 119, pl. 127). Puzzlingly, these original marks of ownership have been rather forcibly removed. At least one other 'Glastonbury' chair with a back panel finely carved with a coat of arms is recorded. The arms are attributed to Sir John Arundell III (d.1561) of Trerice, near Newquay, Cornwall, which firmly places this type of chair as being made in the 16th century. The chair is illustrated and discussed, Adam Bowett, 100 British Chairs (2015), p. 15, and dated to circa 1540 - 75. For other Glastonbury chairs see the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York [Museum No. 12.5], and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London [Museum No. W.232-1923]. The latter was formerly the property of the Very Rev. Dr Cowie, Dean of Exeter. See also articles written for The Journal of the Regional Furniture Society by Gabriel Olive, 'The Glastonbury Chair' (1994), pp. 24-41 and by Anthony Wells-Cole, 'A Last Outpost of the Known World: Vernacular Furniture in Tudor and Stuart Cornwall', (1988), pp. 6-18. A plain back Glastonbury chair with a similar scrolled cresting, is illustrated figure 8. Related Glastonbury chairs sold Bonhams, London, 28th March 2018, Lot 438 (£37,800) and 31st January 2019, The Olive Collection, Lot 257, (£36,400).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
An Elizabeth I small low 'joint stool', circa 1600Possibly formed from a bed-post, the near-square ovolo-moulded seat with circular aperture, each lower edge moulded rail above a slightly recessed arched apron, raised on tapering columnar-turned legs, joined all round by plain stretchers, 28.5cm wide x 30cm deep x 36cm high, (11in wide x 11 1/2in deep x 14in high)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A 19th century joined oak and inlaid panel-back open armchair, South Yorkshire/DerbyshireThe tall back having a floral carved panel centred by an inlaid lozenge, above a foliate S-scroll carved narrow panel, chequer-inlaid horizontal rails, and double-scroll carved cresting centred by a carved mask, leafy-carved ears, the deep scroll-ended open arms on baluster-turned front supports, the single seat board with chip-carved ends, on columnar-turned front legs, joined by a fillet-turned front stretchers and plain side and rear stretcher, 59.5cm wide x 63cm deep x 137cm high, (23in wide x 24 1/2in deep x 53 1/2in high)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A rare James I joined oak caqueteuse open armchair, Scottish, dated 1606Having a tall narrow back, with arched pierced and carved cresting centred by an unidentified coat of arms, flanked by the initials 'G' and 'L', above a panel carved with a large eight-petal flower within a roundel and fleur-de-lys carved spandrels, the lower panel relief carved with a geometric reserve, below a rail inlaid with the date '1606', the flat outsplayed arms on inverted-baluster front supports and a similar narrow central support, the boarded trapezoid-shaped seat with unusual rounded cleated ends, above an arcaded front, having a pair of baluster and reel-turned uprights, matching side supports and larger turned front legs, joined all round by run-moulded stretchers, the seat and back uprights branded 'GB' multiple times, 60cm wide x 45cm deep x 120cm high, (23 1/2in wide x 17 1/2in deep x 47in high)Footnotes:This chair, although earlier in date, has similarities with a well-documented group of twenty chairs, assembled mainly during the seventeenth century, at Trinity Hall, Aberdeen, the headquarters of the Old Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen. The guild consists of seven trades, comprising hammermen, bakers, wrights and coopers, barber-surgeons, tailors, shoemakers, weavers and fleshers. One of the twenty chairs, presented by Andrew Watson, a butcher, is probably the earliest dated piece (1661) of British furniture made using mahogany. It also has an arcaded front below the seat. See Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (2016), p. 424, fig. 4:105.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A pair of mid-17th century oak joint stools, French, circa 1650Each of narrow upright form, having a double-reeded edge seat, the frieze rails with moulded lower edge, on ring-turned and slightly bulbous columnar-turned legs, joined all round by outer-edge moulded stretchers, 30.5cm wide x 24.5cm deep x 51.5cm high, (12in wide x 9 1/2in deep x 20in high) (2)Footnotes:Both with an ornate paper trade label below the seat, reading: 'Messers. Stair & Andrew Ltd. Antiques & Interior Decorations, 25 Soho Square London W.1. Sell all kinds of Genuine Antiques of the periods ranging from the Gothic to the early part of the Nineteenth Century / and at 45, East Fifty-Seventh Street, New York, U.S.A.'. Stair & Andrew was established in 1911 in London and then New York in 1914. After the Second World War it became Stair & Co, a leading 20th century antique company.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A painted-pine table-settle, Welsh, possibly Pembrokeshire, circa 1800-50The rounded-rectangular boarded top/back pivot-hinged from the rear of the flat-arms, raised on square-section chamfered supports, the box-seat accessed by a hinged wide board, twin-panelled front, on extended stile feet, historic red-paint, 133.5cm wide x 71cm deep x 117.5cm high, (52 1/2in wide x 27 1/2in deep x 46in high)
A rare and good James I joined oak child's high-chair, Salisbury and the surrounding area, circa 1620Of A-frame form, the tapering back-panel with a raised reserve centred by a carved triple-petal quatrefoil-shaped motif, beneath a leafy-carved double-scroll cresting, and set between cable-carved horizontal rails, the downswept scroll-ended open arms on inverted-baluster turned front supports, the single seat board with double-reeded edge, the seat rails again cable-carved, on front columnar-turned legs centred by paired rings, joined by plain stretchers all round, foot rest, 42cm wide x 34cm deep x 108.5cm high, (16 1/2in wide x 13in deep x 42 1/2in high)
A George III boarded oak canopy high-back bowfronted settle, West Country, circa 1780The back formed from eight well-figured vertical boards, the winged sides with a pronounced rounded arm rest, flanking a box-seat, accessed by a pair of removable boards, above a triple-panelled front and raked boarded back, 159.5cm wide x 44cm deep x 148cm high, (62 1/2in wide x 17in deep x 58in high)
A late 17th century joined oak slat-back open armchair, English, circa 1685The back with a pair of moulded and punch-decorated slats flanked by broad slats carved with a pair of S-scrolls centred by a crown, mortised between a matching cresting and double S-scroll carved lower rail, the spiral-turned back uprights with ball-turned finials, the scroll-ended arms on matching turned front supports, panelled-seat, on block and squat-baluster turned front legs joined by a low spiral-turned H-form stretcher and a fore-rail carved to match the cresting rail, 58.5cm wide x 58cm deep x 113cm high, (23in wide x 22 1/2in deep x 44in high)
A Charles II joined oak closed-back chair, Cheshire/Lancashire, circa 1670The back panel carved with a bold floral spray, beneath a scroll-profiled shallow-arched cresting, with rare pyramidal-shaped ends and a band of carved leafy S-scrolls, the back uprights again with pyramidal-shaped finials, the panelled seat on central run-moulded rails, with block and ball-turned front legs, joined by a turned fore-rail and plain side and rear low stretchers, 48cm wide x 46cm deep x 96.5cm high, (18 1/2in wide x 18in deep x 37 1/2in high)
A Charles II joined oak backstool, Yorkshire, circa 1680Having a pair of arched splats carved with tight-scrolls centred by a mask, with cusp-profiled upper edge and 'horse-shoe' shaped lower edge with curved projections, the back uprights with inward facing scroll terminals above scratch-carving and applied split-moulding, panelled seat, on block and ball-turned front legs, joined by an elongated ball-turned fore-rail and plain side and rear stretchers, 49cm wide x 42cm deep x 102cm high, (19in wide x 16 1/2in deep x 40in high)
A good Elizabeth I joined walnut, elm and parquetry-inlaid panel-back open armchair, circa 1590Having a double-scroll and leafy-carved cresting, a parquetry-inlaid top rail positioned over the stop-fluted carved uprights and ears matching the cresting, the back panel with parquetry-inlaid bands around a central lozenge, the downswept and line-incised open arms tenoned into the upper block of the columnar-turned front supports, which are topped with a flattened-ball finial, single-board elm seat, on columnar-turned front legs joined by plain stretchers all round, 65.5cm wide x 48cm deep x 124.5cm high, (25 1/2in wide x 18 1/2in deep x 49in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Reputedly Sir George Donaldson Collection.D. S. Wills, Littlecote House, Berkshire.See Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (2016), p. 210, fig. 3:56, for an extremely similar joined walnut and inlaid armchair. The crest and 'ear' designs are identical and the back-panel parquetry design is remarkably similar. The chair is also illustrated by Percy Macquoid, The Age of Oak (1925) p. 139, fig. 113 and listed as the property of Sir George Donaldson.Sir George Hunter Donaldson's collection was extremely distinguished and included (Lot 482) Sir Horace Walpole's celebrated 'Cabinet of Miniatures & Enamels', now in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. He was born in Edinburgh on 25 May 1845 and lived in Paris until 1871 when he moved to London and opened a gallery in New Bond Street which traded until his retirement in the 1890s. He was knighted in 1904 and died in Hove on 19 March 1924. His private museum was at 1 Grand Avenue, Hove, Sussex. This chair does not appear to be listed in the Catalogue of the Important Collection of Pictures by Old Masters, Furniture, Tapestry and Needlework, Objects of Art, Early Sculptures in Marble, &c. Formed by the late Sir George Donaldson at his Private Museum / which will be sold by order of the Executor by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson, A.W. Wilson, W. G. Horsman and N. H. Archer / in the Museum as above / On Monday, July 6th, 1925, and four following days, but there is evidence that other items left his collection before that date. See, for instance, a reference to paintings being bought out of his collection at other times ('Burlington Magazine' Vol. 55, No. 316, Jul 1929, p.lxv).Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition pp. 209-211, illustrates a small group of armchairs with the same rare arm-support construction as found here. The author concludes the chairs likely originate from one locality, 'probably an urban centre in the West Country, such as Bristol' ibid. p. 206. However, London (Southwark) as a place of manufacture is also possible.A handwritten valuation report compiled by Victor Chinnery, dated 21 November 1982, describes the chair as 'of very high quality'. The unusual use of elm for the seat and side rails is also noted.
A rare and documented Charles II joined oak back-stool, with drawer below the seat, South Lancashire/Cheshire, circa 1670The tall cresting carved with scrolling flora and the initials 'R M', the back panel again carved with flowerheads and pointed-leaves, the uprights having rare integral circular finials carved with concentric rings, the boarded seat with narrow ovolo-moulded edge, above a drawer, the drawer's moulded front matching the side seat rails, on block and ball-turned legs, joined by a ball and fillet-turned fore-rail and plain side stretchers, turned front feet, 49cm wide x 44.5cm deep x 112cm high, (19in wide x 17 1/2in deep x 44in high)Footnotes:Illustrated:Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500 to 1700 (2009), p. 282, pl. 390. Described by the author as 'an exceedingly fine and rare chair'.It is notable that the drawer opens forwards. Although seat-drawers are rarely found on 17th century chairs, when present they invariably draw from one side of the seat.
A good Charles II joined oak panel-back open armchair, Yorkshire, circa 1670The back panel designed to simulate two panels, having a larger reserve carved with radiating stylized tulips below a narrow design of conforming floral S-scrolls, headed by a prominent double-scroll carved cresting and S-scroll carved 'ears', the back uprights gauge-carved above the open downswept arms, the boarded seat with chip-carved ends, on parallel-baluster turned front legs, joined all round by plain stretchers, punch-decorated throughout, 62cm wide x 65cm deep x 114.5cm high, (24in wide x 25 1/2in deep x 45in high)Footnotes:An extremely similar panel-back open armchair, almost certainly from the same workshop, sold Bonhams, A Cotswold Legacy 1932-2008: The Property of H. W. Keil, Broadway, Worcestershire, 25th October 2008, Lot 366 [£9,633] and featured on the front cover of the catalogue.
A George III walnut comb-back Windsor armchair, Thames Valley, circa 1820The back with four tapering spindles either side of a fretwork splat, with round-ended serpentine-shaped cresting rail, the three-part arm bow with scroll-over ends on crooked front supports, broad saddle-seat, on baluster-turned splayed front legs with lower ball turning, joined to the plain tapering rear legs by an elliptical-turned H-form stretcher, 65cm wide x 55cm deep x 108.5cm high, (25 1/2in wide x 21 1/2in deep x 42 1/2in high)
A Charles II joined oak backstool, with a drawer below the seat, Lancashire, circa 1670Having a slender back deeply carved with a dragon, with forked tongue and tail, the smooth body unusually incised with four-petal flower and bee motifs, below a bicuspid and triangular narrow cresting with egg-and-tongue carving, the carved design repeated on the lower back rail, the uprights with pyramidal finials, the mainly single-piece seat with dog-tooth punched decoration framing the reeded edge, the decoration repeated on the front seat rail above a gauge-carved drawer front with integral base moulding, on block and ball-turned front legs, joined by a turned fore-rail and multiple plain rear and side stretchers, 52.5cm wide x 41cm deep x 102cm high, (20 1/2in wide x 16in deep x 40in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Purchased from Louis Stanton.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A Charles I joined oak panel back armchair, Devon, circa 1630The back panel carved with addorsed frilly-scrolls within a leafy-carved arcade, below a lunette and stylized flower carved top rail between round-end stiff-leaf carved back uprights, the robust downswept arms with a raised concentric ring-turned roundel to each outer-face, the single seat board with applied reeded edge, over bicuspid-shaped seat rails, on parallel-baluster turned front legs joined all round by plain stretchers, 60cm wide x 52cm deep x 105cm high, (23 1/2in wide x 20in deep x 41in high)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A William & Mary joined oak panel-back open armchair, Yorkshire, dated 1691The flattened-arched cresting carved with a double-scroll, leafy-buds and addorsed tulip-heads, the back panel also carved with radiating tulips below the date '1691', the scroll-ended and punch-decorated downswept arms on ball-turned supports, boarded seat and punch-decorated front seat rail, on columnar-turned front legs joined by plain stretchers all round, 58.5cm wide x 53cm deep x 111cm high, (23in wide x 20 1/2in deep x 43 1/2in high)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A 16th century walnut and upholstered so-called savonorla chair, ItalianTraces of original polychromeOf X-frame form, the padded back, seat and squab-cushion upholstered in crimson silk-velvet with gilt braid appliqué, the downswept arms with whorl-carved rounded ends, the front supports ornately carved with scrolls and each headed by a male profile portrait, restorations, 67cm wide x 49cm deep x 80cm high, (26in wide x 19in deep x 31in high)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A pair of joined oak and elm side chairs, named and datedPart late 17th century, circa 1670, Yorkshire/DerbyshireEach having an arched and scroll-ended cresting, carved to the centre with a moustached male portrait in an oval surround and flanked by tight-scrolls, the similarly carved back panel below headed by five moulded slats and a central cross-rail carved with the date and name '16 John Pype 83', the boarded seat with applied half-round edge moulding, on block and elliptical-turned legs, with conforming turned fore-rail and plain side and rear stretchers, 46.5cm wide x 42cm deep x 105cm high, (18in wide x 16 1/2in deep x 41in high) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Humbleton Hall, Humbleton, East Yorkshire.The 'John Pype' commemorated by these chairs has not been identified. The name appears in records of both London and Yorkshire, but most often in Somerset, in the 16th and 17th centuries.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A documented 17th century ash turner's armchair, Cumbria, circa 1640-80Of four-post form, with all parts turned on a lathe, the design of the winged-back incorporating six 'loose' reels, the seat of turned spindles protected by a later board, 71cm wide x 51cm deep x 123.5cm high, (27 1/2in wide x 20in deep x 48 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Oxford Fine Arts Ltd.Illustrated:Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (2016), p. 74, fig. 2:86.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A good early 16th century beech carving of St. Luke Painting the Virgin, Flemish, circa 1500-1520St. Luke wearing a close-fitting cap and voluminous robes, and seated on a seat with a curved end fitted with a parchemin-type panel above a trefoil-headed apron, and holding an artist's palette and mahl stick, his right hand raised and holding a paint brush to the arched canvas on the easel before him, the ox and banner behind his easel, traces of polychrome, on a later velvet-covered base, the figure 33cm wide x 15cm deep x 48cm high, (12 1/2in wide x 5 1/2in deep x 18 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Purchased from Beedham Antiques Ltd., Hungerford, Berkshire.Saint Luke painting the Virgin is a devotional subject in art showing Luke the Evangelist painting the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus. Such paintings were often created during the Renaissance for chapels of Saint Luke in European churches. Saint Luke was the patron saint of artists and painters' guilds. The painting from which this carving derives has not been identified. Some of its features, including the overall composition, and the shape of the chair on which St. Luke sits, are similar to a triptych panel of the same subject in the National Gallery, attributed to the workshop of Quinten Massys (Antwerp, 1465/6-1530). The shape of the canvas St. Luke is using in this carving, and the style of his cap and clothes, suggests a date in the first half of the 16th century.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
An unusual pair of Charles II joined oak backstools, Cheshire/Lancashire, circa 1670One with the back panel carved with a portrait of Charles II, the other with a 'Windsor Beauty', after the celebrated portraits by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), each half-portrait within an arcade, the king with angel carved spandrels, the female courtier with typical leaf-and-berry spandrels, and both flanked by carved terms, with a scroll-profiled cresting (one also pierced) centred by the carved ownership triad, 'H' over 'H H', the pyramid finial surmounted uprights with split baluster-turned mouldings, the boarded seat with double-reeded edge, flat run-moulded seat rails, baluster-turned front legs joined all round by low plain stretchers, slight variance in design detail and dimensions, 49cm wide x 42cm deep x 107cm high, (19in wide x 16 1/2in deep x 42in high) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Purchased from Key Antiques, North Cotswold, 2004.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A Charles II joined oak panel-back open armchair Yorkshire, circa 1670The tall double-scroll arched cresting carved with a pair of leafy-buds and a central tulip, the flower design elegantly repeated on the single back panel, downswept arms on short ball-turned supports, boarded seat with chip-carved ends, on columnar-turned front legs joined by plain stretchers all round, 61cm wide x 60cm deep x 110cm high, (24in wide x 23 1/2in deep x 43in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Formerly with Leslie Rankine Taylor (d.2014), Cirencester, Gloucestershire.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A Charles II joined oak backstool, Lancashire, circa 1680Having a typical tall arched cresting and back panel robustly carved with flora, and pyramidal finials to the back uprights, a boarded seat with ovolo-moulded edge, on block and baluster-turned front legs, joined by a conforming turned fore-rail and plain side and rear stretchers, 47cm wide x 45cm deep x 113cm high, (18 1/2in wide x 17 1/2in deep x 44in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Purchased from H. W. Keil Ltd., Broadway, Worcestershire.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
The Hornby Castle Chair: A documented oak open armchairElizabeth I/James I, circa 1580-1600 and later, probably South-West ScotlandOf unusual design, having an open back formed of two twin-arcades with fluted-baluster pillars, below a tall cresting, historically thought to be carved with the arms of Conyers of Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, the relatively flat arms carved with a cabled nail-head design, on bulbous basketwork-carved supports, the seat rails, front legs and stretchers similarly carved, restorations, 75.5cm wide x 52cm deep x 138.5cm high, (29 1/2in wide x 20in deep x 54 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Reputedly Duke of Leeds, Hornby Castle, Yorkshire. Thomas George Burn Collection, Rous Lench Court, Abbots Morton, Worcestershire, and reputedly purchased in Otley, Yorkshire.Sotheby's, London, The Rous Lench Collection, Vol. II, 4 July 1986, Lot 695. Alistair Sampson Antiques Ltd., London.Illustrated:Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition 2016, p. 389, fig. 4:37 and p. 390, fig.390 (detail). See also Antique Collectors, 'Rous Lench Court', December 1958, p. 220.Three extremely similar armchairs are known. The first, now in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow (accession no. 14.71), is said to have come from Wordsworth's house, Ambleside, Cumbria. The second, in cedar, at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, bears a label on the underside inscribed HORNBY CASTLE / COLLECTION /APRIL 1930 and another label printed LADY GLAMIS, indicating it passed to the third daughter of the 10th Duke of Leeds before reverting to the 11th Duke and then sold at Sotheby's, July 1961 Lot 140. It was purchased by S. W, Wolsey, Buckingham Gate, London and illustrated Percy Macquoid, The Age of Oak (1904), p. 55, pl. IV. The third, at Norton Conyers Hall, is dated '1603', and illustrated C. Latham In English Homes (1904), p. IX. All four chairs are known to have restoration, although Victor Chinnery refers to this Lot, ibid., p. 390, as 'the most complete of the chairs'.Although the group of chairs to which this example belongs is traditionally associated with Conyers of Hornby Castle, North Yorkshire, the heraldic motifs they bear – horses or unicorns (lacking horns) gorged and chained, a martlet, a lion rampant and the crest of a horned animal - are not traditionally associated with the family. The paternal arms of Conyers are azure, a maunch or with a crescent or surmounted by another gules in chief. The maunch – a sleeve – is a very distinctive heraldic charge, and its absence from these chairs is significant, suggesting that they were not, in fact, made for the Conyers family. Neither is their crest – a sinister wing gules, differenced with a crescent or surmounted by another gules – evident here. The lion rampant does feature, however, on the Hornby Arch in the Burrell Collection, once the main entrance into Hornby Castle.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A small George III joined oak combination cupboard and settle, circa 1760Popularly referred to as a 'Bacon Settle'The narrow-shelved cupboard back enclosed by a pair of quadruple-panelled doors opening to the front, the box-base with full-width hinged seat boards, a twin-panelled front and enclosed sides topped by flat scroll-ended arms, 133cm wide x 59cm deep x 154.5cm high, (52in wide x 23in deep x 60 1/2in high)
A rare, good and documented Charles I joined oak child's chair, West Country, probably Gloucestershire, circa 1640The tall and narrow back panel boldly carved with a single leafy-stem, the uprights with narrow run-mouldings and the top and lower rails with delicate runs of chip-carving, the single-board trapezoid-shaped seat above lower-edge moulded rails, on columnar-turned front legs, joined by plain stretchers all round, the back panel stamped three times with the ownership initials 'I C', 50.5cm wide x 35cm deep x 80.5cm high, (19 1/2in wide x 13 1/2in deep x 31 1/2in high)Footnotes:Illustrated:Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500 to 1700 (2009), p. 151, pl. 171. Described by the author as 'a singularly rare and appealing child's chair'.See Lot 100, an extremely similar child's chair, almost certainly from the same workshop.
An interesting James VI/I oak caqueteuse open armchair, Scottish, circa 1600The refined back with a pair of open arches, with three slightly bulbous and fluted-carved Corinthian pillars supporting a double-scrolled cresting carved with leaves, and jointed over the slender back uprights which are each carved with a single stiff-leaf, with one topped by the initials 'DA', the other 'AH', the flat outsplayed and round-ended arms on baluster-turned front supports, with matching front legs, a triple-boarded seat, and side and rear stretchers, lacking front stretcher, 62cm wide x 53cm deep x 94cm high, (24in wide x 20 1/2in deep x 37in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Inventory number '5244' painted to the underside of the seat, and again to the lower edge of one seat rail.Ivorine retail for Frank Partridge, Works of Art, 26 King St. St. James's and New York to one seat rail inner-face. Partridge sold from 26 King Street from 1910 to 1943.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A James I joined oak panel-back 'caqueteuse' open armchair, Salisbury, circa 1625Having a distinctive semi-circular cresting with chain carving and integral to the lunette-carved top rail, the back panel fully carved with a large flowerhead roundel, the back uprights stiff-leaf carved, the robust scroll-ended arms on columnar-turned front supports, a single-piece trapezium-shaped seat with ovolo edge, with chain-carved seat rails, and columnar-turned front legs joined all round by plain stretchers, 65cm wide x 45cm deep x 104cm high, (25 1/2in wide x 17 1/2in deep x 40 1/2in high)Footnotes:Caqueteuse armchairs, exemplified by a wide trapezoidal seat, first appeared in France and became the standard form of armchair in Scotland during a period of French influence under the reign of Mary Stuart (Queen 1542-1567, d. 1587). However, English armchairs of this form are extremely rare and attributed to only one region, Salisbury. English caqueteuse armchairs mainly have crooked arms, although comparable Salisbury armchairs with straight arms are known; see for instance, a chair attributed to the Humphrey Beckham workshop in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow (item no. 14.68).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
A pair of Charles II joined oak panel-back open armchairs, Cheshire, circa 1680Each having a relief-carved back panel, designed with a large flowerhead within a leaf-quatrefoil and all framed by frilly-leaves, the raised run-moulded top rail with an integral scroll-profiled cresting, round-ended back uprights, and downswept scroll-ended arms on ball and fillet-turned front supports, with matching turned front legs, the boarded seat with ovolo-moulded edge, on thick seat rails with central run-moulding, plain stretchers, 56.5cm wide x 58cm deep x 98.5cm high, (22in wide x 22 1/2in deep x 38 1/2in high) (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
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