ONE ARMCHAIR AND SIX SIDE CHAIRS CIRCA 1755, ONE ARMCHAIR AND TWO SIDE CHAIRS OF A LATER DATE

Name: A SET OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
Brand: ONE ARMCHAIR AND SIX SIDE CHAIRS CIRCA 1755, ONE ARMCHAIR AND TWO SIDE CHAIRS OF A LATER DATE
Price: 22000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 27,720

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A SET OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS

ONE ARMCHAIR AND SIX SIDE CHAIRS CIRCA 1755, ONE ARMCHAIR AND TWO SIDE CHAIRS OF A LATER DATE

Price Realised USD 27,720

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Comprising two armchairs and eight side chairs, one armchair and six side chairs, circa 1755, together with one armchair and two side chairs of a later date; each serpentine back elaborately carved with scrolling tendrils, the pierced splat centered by a quatrefoil with trellis, the out scrolled arms with scroll handholds, on cabriole legs headed by pendant flowering vines and acanthus and with claw-and-ball feet, the padded seats covered in floral cut-velvet, restorations including one armchair with later veneer to splat, crests with restored breaks on some, some chairs with Untermeyer collection label
Armchairs: 39 in. (99.1 cm.) high, 30 in. (76.2 cm.) wide, 26 in. (66.0 cm.) deep
Side chairs: 38¹⁄₂ in. (97.8 cm.) high, 23¹⁄₂ in. (59.7 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58.4 cm.) deep

The Collection of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, The Hill, Hampstead Heath, Middlesex (photographed in the Music Room, circa 1925).
Sold, The Art Collections of the Late Viscount Leverhulme; Anderson Galleries, New York, 9 February 1926, lot 95 (eight side chairs and one armchair).
Acquired from the above sale by French and Company, Inc., New York, for $15,000.
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, New York City (photographed in the South Library of their Riverside Drive apartment, 'The Clarendon', in 1929).
Sold, Selected Art Objects from the William Randolph Hearst Collection; Hammer Galleries, New York, 1941 (six side chairs and one armchair).
The Collection of Judge Irwin Untermeyer, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
Sold; Christie's, New York, 11 November 1971.
With Christopher Gibbs, London.
With Martha (‘Sunny’) von Bulow, Clarendon Court, Newport, Rhode Island.
Sold; ‘Property from a Private Collection’ [von Bulow]; Sotheby’s, New York, 28-29 October 1988, lot 491 (ten chairs; listed in catalogue but retained by the family).

Advertisement, Country Life, 7 November 1925, vol. LVIII., no. 1505, p. 2 (six side chairs photographed in the Music Room at The Hill, Hampstead Heath).
Underwood & Underwood, Main library in residence of William R. Hearst, New York City, c.1929, Photographic Print, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c10937/.
Underwood & Underwood, The south library of Mrs. William R. Hearst's home at Riverside Drive and 86th Street, looking from the entrance from the main library toward the south end, New York City, Photographic Print, c. 1929, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c11340/.
I. Hackenbrock; English Furniture, The Irwin Untermyer Collection, New York, 1958, figs. 139, 140, pl. 112, 113.

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