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Click here to subscribeErcol elm dining table and four chairs Ercol elm dining table and chairs, the drop leaf kitchen table on four tapered legs, model 384, with four Quaker Windsor stick back chairs, model 365, each with a cream upholstered seat pad.Table 113cm wide, 60cm deep, (123cm extended), 71cm high. Cahris 96cm high.
Lizardman Refectory table and six dining chairs by Derek Slater Lizardman refectory table and six dining chairs by Derek Slater, Woodcarvers of Crayke, York, in the style of Robert Thompson (Mouseman). The oak refectory table with a rectangular adzed top and twin pillar supports on sledge feet connected by floor stretcher with a central carved lizardman signature, table is 182cm long, 99cm deep, 72cm high. 6 chairs, 4 standard and 2 carvers, with latticework backs above a royal blue upholstered seat back and seat, on four octagonal tapering legs, each chair with carved lizard signature, 45cm wide, 44cm deep, 92cm high. Carvers 57cm wide, 48cm deep, 92cm high. Seat height 48cm. Accompanied with original price list and catalogue.Please see all additional images. Some water damage to the lower left corner of the table and staining to the upholstery of a couple of chairs. The lizards are in good overall condition, there is some surface scratching and a couple have small nicks to the head. All lizards have been photographed. Catalogue and price lists have also now been photographed.
Pair of Prince of Wales 1969 Investiture chairs Pair Prince of Wales 1969 investiture chairs by Remploy designed by Anthony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, constructed from laminated olive ash stained vermillion red, the backs bearing gilt Prince of Wales feathers and his motto ICH DIEN (I serve) with red pad seats, the underside of each seat bears a Prince of Wales feathers stamp and 1969, 78cm high. Signs of wear, please see images. Some loss to the gilt prince of wales feathers on one seatback.
Chinese huanghuali and burr elm open armchair, with ruyi head cresting over three fielded panels between scroll uprights and conforming open arms, the inverted breakfront burr seat on square section supports and stretchers, old label verso 'Jacques Tajan Connoisseur-Priseur 411', 59cm x 46cm x 98cm highOne of the arms is not sitting flush in place and there is damage on the back of the arm support (see images). There are scuff marks and dents all over and some paint marks also. The chair is sturdy and otherwise in good order.
Documented late 17th Century walnut and cane high-back chair, with pierced arched foliate scroll cresting over double-waisted caned tall back flanked by turned uprights, the cane seat on turned and scroll-carved front supports joined by a stretcher echoing the cresting, the rear with full-length metal supports, beneath brass plaque stating "This chair came from the Old Chancery Court London (shewn on page 109 of Macquoids History of Furniture) was bequeathed to the Bristol Savages [now Bristol 1904 Arts] by the late Charles E. Evans Lt. Commander, R. N. V. R. of Nailsea Court", with old handwritten paper label restating this provenance beside, 132cm highThe chair is indeed shown in Macquoid's 'Age of Walnut' p. 109, fig. 102, where stated 'Walnut chair. Property of A. L. Radford, Esq.'.
Early 19th Century oak barrel back tavern settle, the shaped wing back with integrated arm rests, united by a curved board seat and a concave tongue-and-groove panel back beneath moulded top rail, 151cm x 42cm x 135cm high– There are a few panels that have a crack in them, as you look at it there are two large chips to the base of the right side, there is a strip of beading missing from one panel and there are scratches dent and scuff all over.
Adam style white-painted open armchair, probably 19th Century, the oval padded back with fluted frame raised on paterae embellished supports over gadroon carved arms and reeded bowfront seat rail, raised on four fluted leaf capped tapered legs, the whole with later white painted finish, 65cm x 51cm x 93cm high
Pair of early 20th Century giltwood open armchairs or fauteuils, in the Louis XVI style, each with close nailed floral embroidered upholstery, the shaped panel backs with moulded frame centred with floral spray over padded open arms and serpentine fronted seat raised on slender cabriole supports, 58cm x 58cm x 86cm high
Set of nine (8 + 1 arm) Regency mahogany sabre-leg dining chairs, each with moulded panel back over plain bar and drop-in seat pad raised on sabre supports, 53cm x 53cm x 83cm high (largest) (9) All of the chairs have scuff marks and indentations. One of the chairs has a leg that has a piece cut off from the front of the leg around three inches up from the base. The three patterned seats do not sit on the chairs properly, they are just slightly too wide, and the pegs don’t match up with the holes. The chair with the arms has a leg that is off-centre, has a piece missing from one of the arm supports, and on the same side, the arm is loose in its fitting
Pair of Victorian carved oak armorial hall chairs, the backs well-modelled with a mirror pair of eagles, each modelled with wings outstretched, wearing a coronet around its neck, against a 'ragged staff' or tree stump, raised on tapering octagonally-facetted front supports, 91.5cm highOne of the chairs has the beading missing on the tops of the back legs, the righthand side towards the front just under the seat, and on the front right corner. On the same chair, one of the wings has a repaired crack that looks to have used glue and a screw that has been covered over with filler. The other wing is missing its tip and there is evidence of filler on the back of the wing close to the joint. There are scratches on the seat. The other chair is missing the beading from the top of the left back leg. There is a small area on the curve of the right wing that looks to be a restoration. There is a piece missing between the top of the right back leg and the base the eagle is standing on. These have come from a local vendor who said that the chairs have been with his family for generations.
* Devereux (Robert, 2nd earl of Essex, 1565–1601). Soldier and politician. Favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Letter Signed, ‘Essex’, Courte at Thiballs [Theobalds], 25 June 1594, to Richard Bagotte, Esquire, asking if he will send a buck to Mr Bowyer, Her Majesty’s Usher, in return for another one at a later date, in full, ‘I am requested, and very willing to bestowed, a bucke upon Mr Bowier her Ma[je]sties gentleman usher, in some place of that countrye[.] But because mine owne groundes are unfurnished, I must desire yo[u]r healp; and do therefore praye yow to supplye this turne for mee, and to cause a good Bucke to be delivered to him selfe or this bearer for him. You shall do me an acceptable courtesie; and I will pleasure anie frend of yours with the lyke whensoever yow desire it. So I bid yow hartily well to fare’, 8 lines in a clear hand at top of page, with signed sentiment below, ‘y[ou]r most assured frend / Essex’, 1 page on laid paper with integral address leaf, endorsed ‘My Lord of Essex cr[av]es for a buck, to Mr Bowyer her majesty's usher, bestowed upon Mr Symon Weston’, minor soiling and seal tear, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:An unusual document in excellent condition with the rare autograph of Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite courtier of the time. After a brilliant career Essex was involved in a plot to dismiss the queen’s Councillors and so was executed for treason in 1601.Richard Bagot (c. 1530-1597) of Bagot's Bromley and Blithfield, Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff, Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire. Guardian of Mary Queen of Scots from 1569 to 1570 and from 1585 to 1586. Bagot was on friendly terms with the first two Devereux earls of Essex, William and his son Robert, who had a Staffordshire seat at Chartley, some 3 miles from Blithfield. Richard’s younger son Anthony was a member of Robert Devereux's household from 1579 and took part in the earl's rising of 1601, being pardoned in 1602.Simon Bowyer (1550-1606), Member of the Parliament of England for Great Bedwyn for the parliament of 1572, gentleman usher to Elizabeth I, 1569-97. One of Bowyer’s duties as a gentleman usher was to prevent unauthorised entry to Privy Council meetings. On one occasion he offended the Earl of Leicester by turning away one of his henchmen, and was supported by the Queen in the ensuing dispute.Theobalds at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, was the country seat of the Lord Treasurer, William Cecil, 1st Lord Burghley (c.1520-1598). Both Elizabeth and Essex had both been visiting Theobalds at the time of this letter and Essex is likely wanting to give Bowyer the buck as a gift for his services there.
Crimean War. ‘Log of the proceedings of Her Majesty's steam Frigate Sidon, George Goldsmith Esq., Captain, kept by George Tate Medd [1838-1907], midshipman’, manuscript, 1 January 1855 to 24 June 1857, a detailed log commencing off Sevastopol and continuing in the Black Sea for the next 18 months, most of the time anchored off Sevastopol or Balaclava or between the two, apart from voyages to Corfu transporting the 82nd Regt., and bringing back the 1st Royals, and to Malta for refitting, Medd meticulously records the comings & goings of vessels of all nationalities, notes troop movements and other military activities which he can see on shore (‘Russians throwing up earth works on N. side’), the taking on board British, French & Turkish troops and Russian prisoners, flags of truce and exchange of prisoners, crew training & discipline with fairly frequent floggings (usually 36 lashes) &c., &c., on 15 June 1856 the Crimean Medal is distributed to the ship's company, and on the 17th ‘Rec'd 24 officers & 714 rank & file of the 93rd Highlanders for passage to England’, arriving in Portsmouth Harbour alongside the Prince Regent hulk on 15 July, the troops are disembarked & the ship paid off; with various illustrations mainly from the 'Illustrated London News' (some annotated by Medd, e.g. ‘This is really a very fair birds eye view of Sebastopol as seen from the masthead of the old 'Sidon' steam frigate by me’), but including two drawings by Medd, one of which is a plan of the attack on Fort Kinburn on 17 October 1855 written on 148 pages; then on leaving the 'Sidon' the log continues with Medd's further service with two short spells on the 'Victory' in Portsmouth Harbour, mainly occupied in instructing boys in cutlass & gun drill, on 21 August 1856 a boy named George Reed is receiving 36 lashes at about the same time as Her Majesty is passing in the 'Fairy' to land at Clarence Yard; from 18 October 1856 to 12 February 1857 the volume records the voyage to and from Irish ports of H.M. steam sloop 'Driver', Ennis Chambers, commander, during which Medd exercises the watch and 'young gentlemen' at gun drill; ending with ‘Log of H.M.S. 'Sans-Pareil', Astley Cooper Key, captain, to Hong Kong’, the log of this 10-gun screw line of battle ship ends between the Cape of Good Hope & Singapore on 24 June, 1857, in all a total of approximately 248 pages of manuscript written in a standard-ruled log book, with various illustrations including wood engravings (cut from Illustrated London News) of 'Driver and 'Sans-Pareil', old boards with canvas covering, heavily soiled, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Sidon served in the Black Sea in the Crimean War, 1854-55, under the command of Captain George Goldsmith. In September 1854, in the Allied invasion of the Crimea, she was assigned to escorting the French troop transports, and assisted the French line-of-battleship Algiers, which had gone aground in Eupatoria Bay. She was then sent to monitor Russian movements around Odessa. William Simpson painted a scene titled 'Sebastopol from the Sea, Sketched from the Deck of H.M.S. Sidon, Feb. 1855', which was reproduced as one of the lithographs in The Seat of War in the East (1855-56).About ten years after this log was written Medd left the Navy as a Lieutenant and entered the Church, where he was eventually, for many years, Vicar of Whitchurch, Aylesbury.
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