Bonhams 1793 : A Queen Anne walnut wing armchair retaining it's original upholstery, and with an associated loose cover

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15 Jun 2011 14:00 BST London, New Bond Street
Fine English Furniture and Works of Art
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A Queen Anne walnut wing armchair

retaining it's original upholstery, and with an associated loose cover
The shaped toprail above a rectangular padded back with shaped sides above outscrolled padded arms and rectangular seat, with loose squab, on cabriole scroll carved legs and pad feet, the underlying upholstery of sea blue linen, with traces of a scrolling pattern, bound in blue and white linen braid, circa 1720, (the loose cover of 1710's linen with coloured wool embroidery in mainly chain stitches designed with isolated motifs of birds, fruit and flowers and re-made to fit the chair, probably cut from a curtain, see lot 26 which has a similar cover).

Sold for £14,400 inc. premium

Footnotes

Provenance: Spains Hall, Finchingfield, Essex

Possibly commissioned by Sir Thomas Dyer, 5th Baronet (1694-1780) and sold to:
Samuel Ruggles with the purchase of Spains Hall, 1760. See catalogue note for lot 25

A similar linen damask in crimson appears on a chair at Erdigg, Wrexham, Wales that retains its original upholstery. The Erdigg chair is thought to be one of the '6 Crimson damask chairs walnutree frames' recorded in the Second Best Bed Chamber in 1726. See A.Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture, 1715-1740, Suffolk, 2009, p.167, pl.4.46

Category: Furniture / English Furniture and Works of Art

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