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Lot 421
FINE CARVED MAHOGANY SETTEE IN THE GEORGE II MANNER the shaped back centred by an acanthus and shell carved cresting, with out scrolling arms with dog`s mask facing, above a stuffed over seat, raised on lion`s mask carved cabriole legs ending in hairy paw feet and united by an acanthus carved wavy apron 216cm wide This settee is also near identical design to the celebrated suite now divided amongst some of the world`s finest public and private collections. The suite`s provenance prior to the 20th century has yet to be established but Symonds states that Moss Harris acquired a set of twelve chairs soon after the First World War which he proceeded to sell singly and in pairs. Harris certainly illustrates one in his book `The English Chair`. However, in 1906 Macquoid illustrated a single chair as the property of Messrs Isaacs, who later became Moss Harris, so the firm obviously had an interest earlier than this. He also illustrates a sofa (colour Pl. XXXIV) from the same suite as the property of Frank Partridge; this is the only recorded appearance of the sofa. A pair of armchairs were sold at Sotheby`s in 1962 (March 30, lot 159) which included one from the collection of HH Mulliner (sold Christie`s July 10, 1934 lot 92, also illustrated in Brackett p.229.); and two further pairs from the collection of HJ Joel were sold at the Childwick Bury house sale in 1978 (Christie`s May 1, lots 76 and 77). In terms of published examples whose whereabouts are known, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has a single chair (Acc. No. 47-20-3) which was acquired from the collection of Francis P Garvan in 1929, and there is a pair in the Jon Gerstenfeld Collection which were acquired through Hotspur Ltd and may be one of the above mentioned pairs. There is also a pair of chairs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of near identical pattern which were acquired in 1964 from Irwin Untermeyer (Acc. Nos. 64.101.978 & 979). Untermeyer had bought them separately, one having belonged to Colonel Lindley Marcroft Scott (sold Sotheby`s April 21, 1950 lot 64) and the other to Percival Griffiths at Sandridgebury (sold Christie`s May 10,1939 lot 191); it is of note that Sandridgebury is very near Childwick Bury (see above). One of the examples in Brackett (p.214), and that in Edwards, is attributed to the collection of J Thursby Pelham, and is one of this type (this example has in the past been confused with the chair in the Philadelphia Museum of Art). A near identical pair of chairs, presumably from the same suite, was sold in these rooms 30th June 2001, lot 491 (£27,000) Macquoid suggested the hand of Giles Grendey, presumably by comparison with the linen press in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (see Coleridge pl. 373) which has panelled doors in Grendey`s characteristic style and legs and aprons very similar to this settee. This attribution is widely discounted now although the correlation between the press and the settee is interesting. Bibliography William Rieder `Highlights of the Untermeyer Collection of English and Continental Decorative Arts` 1977 No. 136. Herbert Cescinsky `English Furniture of the 18th Century` London 1910 vol II pp.65-67 fig.62 Mulliner 1924 fig.12 RW Symonds `Connoisseur` LXXIX 1927 p.231 no.XIV RW Symonds `Apollo` June 1930 p.366 fig.IX RW Symonds `English Furniture from Charles II to George II` London 1929 pp.41,191,209 figs.20,148,168 RW Symonds `Antique Collector` XXIX 1958 pp.97,99 fig.1 Percy Macquoid `The Age of Mahogany` 1906 p.120 pl.IV Ralph Edwards `Dictionary of English Furniture` 1954 vol I p.265 fig.124
Lot 546
An early Victorian mahogany framed double scroll end sofa, the shaped and moulded back with carved leaf scroll brackets and with conforming front arm cappings, upholstered in rose dralon, the sides buttoned, and complete with seat squab and circular cushions, on turned and octagonal front legs and castors, 74ins wide x 24ins deep x 39ins high
Lot 578
A late George III mahogany sofa table, the top inlaid with mahogany banding and ebonised stringings, with D-shaped flaps and moulded edge, fitted two real drawers with crossbanded drawer fronts to front and two dummy drawers to reverse, on bobbin turned centre column and quadruple splayed supports with reeded ornament, and with reeded brass toes and castors, 51ins wide x 25ins deep x 28.5ins high
Lot 2401
A Regency rosewood sofa table, the rounded rectangular top with fall leaves, outlined with brass strung panels divided by quatrefoil stylised flowerheads above two short drawers with turned handles, lyre shaped column, incurved canted rectangular platform issuing four sabre legs, draught turned roundels, brass capped castors, 152cm wide open, 93cm wide closed, 71cm high, c.1820
Lot 613
An early 19th century mahogany sofa table, inlaid ebonised stringing, the drop flap top above a pair of frieze drawers with dummy fronts to the reverse, fitted replaced handles, on solid ends united by a stretcher above downswept supports terminating in brass paw sabots and castors, 27.75in (70.5cm) h, 37in (94.2cm) w, 23in (58.4cm) d. Old damages and restorations, right flap warped.
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