A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS

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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS

Each with rectangular padded back and curved seat covered in gros and petit point needlework, with a central cartouche of a spray of flowers within a flowerhead-filled trellis-pattern, the back flanked by detached fluted and spirally-fluted columns, on fluted turned tapering legs, later blocks, inscribed in black pen 6056/4, minor restorations, the decoration refreshed (4)

来源

Almost certainly supplied to Anthony, 5th Earl of Newburgh (d. 1814), Slindon Hall, Arundel, Sussex
Almost certainly by descent at Slindon until the early years of this century
Bought by 1st Viscount Leverhulme (then Sir William Lever, Bt.) from Moss Harris (trading as Messrs. Isaacs) on 22 July 1914 as part of a larger group (see below) for #650
The late Viscount Leverhulme, The Hill, Hampstead, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 9 February 1926 (=1st day), lots 188-191 (the illustration in the catalogue shows them with needlework to the edge of the seats)
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 15 November 1990, lot 56

拍品专文

This table is part of a suite that consists of a total of twelve side chairs, two armchairs, a footstool and a circular table. Lord Leverhulme bought the entire suite from Moss Harris as well as five unrelated pieces of bluejohn. He paid #650 for the whole group.

On the first day of the 1926 sale, the chairs and footstool were lots 188-191 and the writing-table lot 140. A pair of the side chairs were subsequently sold (as Louis XVI) by the Westmoreland Museum of Art, at Sotheby's New York, 31 March 1990, lot 206. The circular table was sold from the collection of the late Sir Michael Sobell, in these Rooms, 23 June 1994, lot 76. It had a top inset with two Neopolitan gouaches.

Slindon Hall was the seat of the Kemp family in the early 18th Century. Barbara Kemp (d. 1797), eventual sole heiress of Anthony Kemp, married James, 4th Earl of Newburgh (d. 1787) in 1749. Since the early 19th Century the Earls of Newburgh have been Italian and Slindon was sold and rebuilt early this century.