THE WINKBURN HALL DINING-CHAIRS
A SET OF FOURTEEN MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

COMPRISING ELEVEN GEORGE III, CIRCA 1755-65, POSSIBLY BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, THREE, INCLUDING TWO ARMCHAIRS, 20TH CENTURY

成交價 英鎊 296,750
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英鎊 160,000 – 英鎊 240,000
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A SET OF FOURTEEN MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

COMPRISING ELEVEN GEORGE III, CIRCA 1755-65, POSSIBLY BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, THREE, INCLUDING TWO ARMCHAIRS, 20TH CENTURY

成交價 英鎊 296,750
拍品終止拍賣: 2018年7月5日
成交價 英鎊 296,750
拍品終止拍賣: 2018年7月5日
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A SET OF FOURTEEN MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE
COMPRISING ELEVEN GEORGE III, CIRCA 1755-65, POSSIBLY BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, THREE, INCLUDING TWO ARMCHAIRS, 20TH CENTURY
Each with serpentine-shaped toprail with foliate-carved clasps above a pierced gothic and foliate-carved splat centred by a confronting C-scroll and rocaille cabochon, the drop-in seat covered in green-grey horsehair, on cabriole legs carved with foliate sprays and headed by confronting C-scrolls, terminating in scroll feet, the plain splayed back legs with club feet, variously numbered I, III, IIII, V, VI, VII, VIII, VIIII, X, XI, one with label 'A 42906', another 'HRW'
37 ¾ in. (96 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63 cm.) deep
來源
Almost certainly supplied to D’Arcy Burnell (d. 1774) for Winkburn Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, circa 1755, thence by descent,
Assheton Craven-Smith-Milnes, Esq., of Winkburn Hall and Hockerton Manor, Nottinghamshire,
sold from the collection of Major E. A. Burnell Milnes (deceased), Winkburn Hall, Newark, Sotheby's, London, 10 March 1933, lot 178 (a set of eleven chairs and a triple-chair-back settee en suite) but apparently sold privately to Sir Arthur Wilmot, thence by descent,
Sir Robert Wilmot, Bt., Pitcairlie, Newburgh, Fife.
With Norman Adams Ltd., London (eleven chairs and the settee).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 22 April, 1999, lot 180.
Theodore and Ruth Baum, sold Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 2013, lot 149.
出版
R. W. Symonds, ‘The Importance of English Chair Design’, The Connoisseur, September 1950, p. 46, fig. 8, the back of one chair illustrated, 'of exceptionally fine quality’, showing ‘an elegance of proportion and contour, particularly in the sweeping curve of the back.'
C. C. Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, pp. 48 & 49, which also illustrates the chair-back settee which formed part of the original suite.
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