A PIEDMONTESE GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL

CIRCA 1740

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A PIEDMONTESE GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL
CIRCA 1740
With acanthus-carved, moulded shaped padded back surmounted by a scallop shell, the outcurved padded armrests above a bowed padded seat, the carved seatrails centred by a scallop shell, on lambrequin-carved cabriole legs and scrolled toes, covered in oyster cut silk-velvet on a gold ground
45½ in. (115.5 cm.) high; 28¾ in. (73 cm.) wide

来源

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hayes Burns, North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire, and thence by descent to
Major General Sir George Burns, KCVO, CB, DSO, OBE, MC, North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire; sold Christie's house sale, 24-26 September 1979, lot 110.

出版

A. Oswald, 'North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire - II', Country Life, vol. LXXV, 1934, pl. 5 (looking west in the south hall).

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This fauteuil and pair of chairs en suite (lot 22) formed part of the celebrated collections at North Mymms Park in Hertfordshire. Having had a succession of owners dating back to Sir Ralph Coningsby, Sheriff of Hertfordshire, in 1590, North Mymms was purchased by Mr. Walter Hayes Burns, brother-in-law of J. Pierpont Morgan, in 1893. In the 1890s considerable internal modifications and enlargements were carried out by the fashionable London architect Sir Ernest George to accommodate Mr. and Mrs. Burns' growing collection of works of art, furniture and pictures, many of which were gifts from J. Pierpont Morgan's personal collections. The contents of the house were dispersed in a three-day sale held by Christie's on the premises in 1979, where this private collector acquired several pieces of furniture and objets d'art, including an important group of Chinese reverse-painted mirror pictures, some of which are offered here (lots 6, 21, 22, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 103, 200, 203, 204, 216 & 217).