Details
Each with shell-carved cresting above a vasiform splat, each front rail carved with a stylized shell in a cartouche, the cabriole legs with shell-carved knees and claw-and-ball feet, one frame stamped 'I', its drop-in seat covered in associated floral petit-point needlework circa late seventeenth/early eighteenth century, the other frame stamped 'VII', its drop-in seat later and slightly too large for its frame and covered in petit-point and gros-point needlework, possibly also later; the chair stamped 'VII' with remnants of paper label inscribed in ink, 'forty one / 41', and chair 'I' with similar label fragment inscribed in ink, 'one'; minor variations to carving between the chairs
4314 in. (110 cm.) high, 2112 in. (55 cm.) wide, 2412 in. (62.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Ingham Family, Wighill Park, Tadcaster, York.
Probably sold from Wighill Park, along with the contents of the house, at the instruction of Major J.L. Ingham, by Messrs. Jackson Stops & Staff, 10-11 January 1945.
Property from the Estate of Frank Crozier Knowles; Christie's, New York, 22 October 1988, lot 224.
Acquired from the above sale.
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