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.
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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.
A set of six George IV mahogany and leather upholstered dining chairs, circa 1825, in the manner of Gillows, to include a pair of armchairs, each with a bar back with scrolls and horizontal splat above a padded leather seat and turned reeded legs Provenance: Property from a Private Collection Provenance: Previously purchased from John Bly Please note a further four chairs for this set have come to light and are offered in this lot - the description should read: A set of ten George IV mahogany and leather upholstered dining chairs, circa 1825, in the manner of Gillows, to include a pair of armchairs, each with a bar back with scrolls and horizontal splat above a padded leather seat and turned reeded legsProvenance: Property from a Private CollectionProvenance: Previously purchased from John BlyPlease note the estimate has increased to 2000-3000
A Scottish Baronial carved giltwood overmantel mirror, second half 19th century, the arched plated surmounted by a heraldic lion emblem and motto for Clan Gregor, 'S Rioghal Mo Dhream (Royal is my race), approximately 260cm high, 199cm wide Provenance: Property from a Private Collection Clan Gregor (Clan MacGregor) is a Highland Scottish clan that claims an origin in the early 800s. The Clan is known to have been among the first families of Scotland to begin playing the bagpipes in the early 17th century. The current chief is Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor, 7th Baronet of Lanrick and Balquhidder and the Seat is Irvine House.
A Victorian mahogany and green leather upholstered library armchair, circa 1860, with integral back and arms above the stuffed seat and reeded legs terminating in white porcelain castors, together with another, similar, with red leather upholstery, on bulbous supports terminating in brown porcelain castors (2) Provenance: Property from a Private Collection
A set of eight mahogany and leather upholstered dining chairs in George III style, mid 20th century, each with upholstered back and seat above moulded square section supports united by stretchers Provenance: Property from a Private Collection Please note: These are not leather but leatherette covered
A Gurage chopping board / seat Ethiopia with end handles and grooved sides and underneath, 40.5cm long, three Oromo headrests, including a block and two with conical bases having incised linear decoration, and a Lotuko tripod headrest. (5) Provenance Owen Hargreaves, London. Richard Nathanson Collection, London.
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