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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1775 Upholstered in buttoned damson silk damask, each with an oval guilloche-carved back with wreathed cabochon cresting, padded arms with foliate and ball terminals and guilloche seat rails above imbricated square tapering legs, one chair and corresponding seat-frame marked XX 97cm high, 63cm wide, 61cm deep Provenance : Acquired from Mackinnon, London by the present owner Literature : H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell , 1980, London, vol.II, fig.87 H. Hayward, 'The Drawings of John Linnell in the Victoria & Albert Museum', Furniture History , 1969 These 'cabriolet' chairs upholstered with loose frames `à chassis' were designed by John Linnell (d. 1796) in the French antique style of the early 1770s and were directly inspired by a prototype French chair-pattern executed by the menuisier Jean-Baptiste Boulard ( maître in 1755) (illustrated in M. Jarry, Le Siège Français , Fribourg 1973, p. 203, figs. 195-6). Linnell's watercolour chair-pattern (Victoria & Albert, no. E82-1929) is also accompanied by an enlarged detail of the acanthus-wrapped cabochon, which is tied to the seat-rail with its pearled ribbon-guilloche (P. Ward-Jackson, English Furniture Designs of the Eighteenth Century , London, 1958, fig. 241). John Linnell, who helped furnish a number of houses under the direction of the architect Robert Adam (d. 1792), had studied French ornament at the St. Martin's Lane art-school before inheriting his father's cabinet-making and upholstery workshops in Berkeley Square. A number of his chair-patterns demonstrate an interest in French furniture and particularly the influence of the Parisian architect Jean-Charles Delafosse's Recueil de Meubles , 1768 (H. Hayward, 'The Drawings of John Linnell', Furniture History Society Journal , 1969, fig. 16). Among other armchairs of this pattern are six at Harewood House, Yorkshire (Helena Hayward and Pat Kirkham, William and John Linnell , London, 1980, vol. II, p. 45, fig. 88) and another set of six and two sofas made for the Duke of Argyll, Inverary Castle, Argyll ( ibid . p.46, fig 89). A set of six armchairs was sold anonymously at Sotheby's, 6 July 1962, lot 1290, and four pairs of closely related chairs were sold from the collection of Edward Sarofim Christie's, London, 16 November 1995, lot 122 (£29,900 including premium), lot 123 (£32,200), lot 124 and 125 (both £29,900). Another pair, possibly the lot offered here, was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 17 March 2011, lot 79 (£16,250 including premium). Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. The upholstery is clean and the webbing tight. Drop-in seat frames may be original (one marked XX corresponding to one chair frame), likewise the supporting blocks to the seat rails which retain projecting nails for tying off loose covers. Re-gilt. There is general wear and scuffing to the gilding and some flaking and loss, notably to the feet. The seats, and the upholstered pads in the chair backs, are upholstered to frames that drop in to the chair frames. This is what is described as `a chassis', ie it is a technique borrowed from French seat furniture. It is common to all chairs of this pattern (attributable to Linnell who was himself influenced by French designers) including those mentioned in the note - the Inverary Castle chairs, the Harewood chairs and others sold at auction. We note in the condition report that the frames for the upholstered seats may be original. Overall a good pair of chairs, a pattern that historically has sold well, and in ready-to-use condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD BERGÈRES EN GONDOLE, BY JEAN-JACQUES POTHIER

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‡ A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD BERGÈRES EN GONDOLE BY JEAN-JACQUES POTHIER, CIRCA 1750 Upholstered in green velvet, each with a curved back, loose cushion and serpentine seat rails on cabriole legs headed by shells, one indistinctly stamped POTHIER 102cm high, 79cm wide, 90cm deep Provenance: Almost certainly Archibald Stirling of Keir, sold Christie's, 22 May 1995, lot 118. With Mallett, London. Private Collection, London. Acquired from Mackinnon, London by the present owner. Jean-Jacques Pothier, maître in 1750. Pothier, a master carpenter who is still little documented, obtained his master's letters in Paris in 1750. His Louis XV, Transitional and Louis XVI furniture designs testify to his ability to adapt to changing tastes across decades. He established his business first in the rue Mazarine and later in rue de Bourbon-Villeneuve remaining active until 1780. His works are varied but all exhibit excellent manufacturing quality. His early, Louis XV work is characterised by a simplicity and elegance of line as in the present lot, but when embellished with additional carving he demonstrated a mastery of carving which became more sophisticated and accomplished over time. A suite of seat furniture displaying a similar lines and stamped by Pothier was sold Christie's, Paris, 11-12 April, 2006, lot 43 (€9,600 including premium), a single bergere a oreilles was sold Christie's, Paris, 5 May 2011 (€6,875 including premium). Condition Report: Generally good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. The upholstery is clean and the webbing tight. Refreshments to the gilding, there is wear and scuffing throughout and some flaking and minor loss. Later blocks to the joints. One chair with a cut in repair to the left seat rail. Otherwise in good order, a pair of good-scale chairs in ready-to-use condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A ROYAL LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED AND UPHOLSTERED CHAISE A LA REINE, CIRCA 1785

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‡ A ROYAL LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED AND UPHOLSTERED CHAISE A LA REINE ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-BAPTISTE BOULARD, CIRCA 1785 Upholstered in pale blue embroidered silk depicting putto, the channelled frame with an arched padded back and bowed seat, on tapering turned and fluted legs, pegged construction, with Royal Versailles stamp, traces of earlier pale blue paint 87cm high, 50cm wide, 47cm deep Jean-Baptiste Boulard, maître in 1755. Jean-Baptiste Boulard was among the great Parisian menusiers who supplied furniture and other work for Louis XVI's Royal residences in the 1780s. In February 1785 Jean Hauré was commissioned to supply a long set of chairs, screen and a room-divider for the King's Games Salon at Versailles and Boulard was chosen as carpenter, with other craftsmen selected as carvers, painters and gilders. Boulard's records for 1785 also records this delivery, describing 36 fully arched chairs, curved around the rim of the seat, preparing the wood for the woodcarver, for 10 livres apiece... These chairs (Inventory no V 6202) were a more elaborate version the present lot, with ribbon-carved and gilded frames. Another set of chairs (TE 16) delivered between 1784-1789 was supplied by Jean-Baptiste Boulard and Jean-Baptiste Claude Sené for an antechamber or dining room. They correspond closely to the present chair, having an elegantly channelled frame and painted, but with stretchers. Formerly in the collection of the Garde Meuble, eight were sent to Versailles in 1838, and since 1968 at Trianon-sous-Bois. Another set of twenty-four similar chairs with arched backs were supplied by Boulard (GMT 2797.1) for the Hôtel du Contrôle général des Finances in Versailles. A giltwood chair of the first pattern was sold from the Rothschild family collections, Christie's, Paris, 21 November 2023, lot 5 (239,400 EUR including premium). Another chair attributed to Boulard and bearing the Versailles stamp was sold Christie's, Paris, 22 June 2004, lot 338 (16,450 EUR including premium). Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. Upholstery is clean. Some scuffing to the paintwork, notably to the legs, there are traces of earlier pale blue paint. Minor old (inactive) worm in the seat rails and legs. Previously but not originally with screwed corner blocks to the joints. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRRORS, CIRCA 1755

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD DEMI-LUNE SIDE TABLES, IN THE MANNER OF JAMES WYATT

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‡ A VICTORIAN GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED BURR WALNUT, KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS, CIRCA 1780

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS, CIRCA 1775

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‡ PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIRS, ATTRIBUTED TO INCE & MAYHEW

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO INCE & MAYHEW, CIRCA 1775 Upholstered in dove grey watered silk, each with an oval back with foliate cresting and a padded serpentine seat with fluted and patera-centred rail, on tapering turned, reeded and fluted legs, with cramp cuts, batten-carrying holes and rear strut 92cm high, 56.5cm wide, 48cm deep Provenance: Acquired from Mackinnon, London by the present owner. The chairs bear close comparison with a number of sets firmly attributed to the prestigious London furniture-makers Messrs Ince and Mayhew. Foremost among these are the set of nine, painted blue and white, supplied to John Crewe, later 1st Lord Crewe, for 3 Grosvenor Square, London, or Crewe Hall, Cheshire in 1775. Others related include sets supplied to Sir Thomas Edwardes, 6th Bt., for 17 Edwards Street, Marylebone, and the 2nd Earl of Warwick for Warwick Castle, all around (H. Roberts and C. Cator, Industry and Ingenuity The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew , London, 2022, pp. 360 - 361, figs. 315, 314 and 316). The seat rails are notched for the attachment of cramps in glueing up the chairs in the workshop, a technique that seems to have been invented by Thomas Chippendale but was adopted by other leading chair-makers. A set twelve armchairs identical in design to the present lot was formerly in the collection of Sir Michael Sobell, sold Christie's, London, 23 June, 1994, lot 60, and again from a private Eaton Square collection, Christie's, London, lot 179 (£85,875 including premium). Four armchairs and a window seat from the Edwardes suite were sold from the collection of the late Sir Jasper and Lady More (the latter a descendent of Sir Thomas Edwardes), Linley Hall, Shropshire, Christie's, London, 9 March 2016, lot 74 (£25,000 including premium). Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches consistent with age and use. The upholstery is clean and the webbing tight. Re-gilt, with minor wear and chips. The batten-carrying holes in the seat rails now plugged Overall in good clean and ready to use condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS A LA REINE, CIRCA 1780

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‡ A VICTORIAN GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED FIGURED WALNUT AND TULIPWOOD-INLAID CLOTHES PRESS

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‡ PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGÈRES A LA REINE, BY PIERRE BRIZARD

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‡ A PAIR OF GILTWOOD AND EBONISED SIDE TABLES, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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‡ A PAIR OF GILTWOOD AND EBONISED SIDE TABLES POSSIBLY BY LENYGON AND MORANT, AFTER DESIGNS BY HENRY FLITCROFT AND MATTHIAS LOCK, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY Each with a green variegated marble top above a leaf-tip carved frieze, with a bold pendant lion's head and draped pelt on foliate-carved S-scroll supports and a shaped plinth carved with rosettes, one with handwritten label `17229' 86cm high, 152cm wide, 61cm deep The tables reflect the Palladian style promoted after 1719 by Lord Burlington and his disciples, most notably the architect designers William Kent (1685-1748) and Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769). Under their influence Palladianism became the de facto style for any significant public or private building and so too for furniture intended to complement the architecture. Kent's related designs include at table at Ditchley Park, c.1726, while another related pair of tables from Ditchley is now at Temple Newsam House, Leeds (LEEAGFU.154.00). Their design is attributed to Kent's assistant Henry Flitcroft who completed the interiors at Ditchley from 1736 - 41. A third table, almost identical to the Temple Newsam pair, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (object no. 26.45), was sold by the Dukes of Hamilton in 1919 and was acquired by William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme until sold after his death (Anderson Galleries, New York, 9 - 13 February lot 9). A design corresponding to the Temple Newsam and the Leverhulme tables is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (inv'. no, 2848.98). It came to the museum in an album of designs entitled Original Designs by Matts Lock, Carver 1740 - 1765 , from a descendent of Lock. While Lock is perhaps most closely associated with the Rococo style, memoranda for carving work undertaken help to date his activities as early as 1742 - 44. In the early 20th century the London firm of cabinet-makers and decorators Lenygon & Morant became specialist manufacturers of 18th century style furniture some of which bears the brand 'made by Lenygon Co. Ltd Reproduction'. They were notably involved in refurbishing a number of houses where Kent had worked and employed the furniture historian Margaret Jourdain after 1911 as art correspondent, after which she assumed the pen-name Francis Lenygon. As Margaret Jourdain she wrote The Work of William Kent: Artist, Painter, Designer and Landscape Gardener (1948) that included related table designs. The tables offered here follow the eighteenth century designs, displaying a variety of typically `Kentian' features. Both the Temple Newsam and Leverhulme tables display a mask of Hercules which is here replaced with a lion mask. Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. There is wear to the gilding with some red bole visible beneath the gold, and some small chips. The green marble tops are in good condition, well coloured and figured and with moulded edges, Overall in good clean condition, bold and decorative tables in ready-to-use condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A CARVED GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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‡ A CARVED GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE POSSIBLY BY LENYGON & MORANT, AFTER THE DESIGN BY WILLIAM KENT, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY The breche d'Alep marble top above a leaf-tip and Vitruvian scroll frieze centred by a large double shell clasp and hung with oak leaf and acanthus swags on scrolled imbricated and acanthus-wrapped cabriole legs and scrolled feet on square moulded blocks 87cm high, 186cm wide, 66cm deep Provenance: Acquired from Butchoff Antiques, London by the present owner The marble-topped table is designed in the George II Roman fashion promoted by the Rome-trained artist William Kent (d.1748) and inspired by Ovid's epic poem Metamorphoses . Distinctive Kentian features include the large scallop hung with oak swags shell evoking the triumph of Venus, the Roman nature deity, Vitruvian scroll and imbricated or scaly legs. The pattern was invented by Kent around 1730 when he supplied a pair of tables to Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, for Houghton Hall, Norfolk, illustrated in M. Jourdain, The Work of William Kent , London, 1948, p. 173, fig. 138, and also recorded in an unpublished photograph for Country Life in 1921 (see also John Cornforth, ed. Tessa Murdoch, Noble Households , 2006, pp. 169 - 205). The Houghton tables are particularly noteworthy in having fine ormolu guilloche borders framing the marble tops but the base of the present lot faithfully corresponds to the Houghton pattern. Kent's work was popularised in the 20th century by furniture historians and writers including Margaret Jourdain in her book The Work of William Kent, published in 1948. Jourdain adopted the pen-name of Lenygon following her employment in 1911 as art correspondent for the London decorators and cabinet-makers Lenygon & Morant, at a time when they were refurbishing a number of houses where Kent had been employed. It is possible that this table is one of their manufactures. A pair of tables of the same pattern but slightly smaller dimensions was sold anonymously Christie's, New York, 18 October 2005, lot 482 ($14,400 including premium). Condition Report: Generally good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. The marble top is in good condition, with just minor nibbles around the edges, the breche marble is approx 6mm veneer laid on a cement slab. There is minor wear to the gilding and the odd small chip to extremities of the carving. Overall in good order, a handsome table in ready to use condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A GEORGE II CARVED GILTWOOD MIRROR, CIRCA 1740

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‡ A GEORGE II CARVED GILTWOOD MIRROR IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM KENT, AFTER A DESIGN BY WILLIAM JONES, CIRCA 1740 The broken foliate and egg-and-dart pediment centred by a shell above a frieze with a draped female mask , the rectangular plate within a sanded surround with ribbon and rosette and shell carved borders, the sides hung with leaf and berry swags and with a Vitruvian scroll panel below, chalked 7737-52 216cm high, 120cm wide The mirror is designed in the Palladian style introduced by Lord Burlington and popularised by architect/designer William Kent (d.1748). Despite Kent's fame through furniture commissions for houses including Houghton, Holkham and Raynham in Norfolk, and Lord Burlington's own villa Chiswick House, few of his drawings or engravings survive, though some were published by John Vardy in Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. William Kent , 1744. A design for a mirror by Kent from Chatsworth House, Derbyshire that includes features of the mirror offered here including the prominent shell cresting is illustrated in Margaret Jourdain, The Work of William Kent , London, 1948, p. 172, fig. 136. The design relates most closely to patterns published in 1739 by William Jones in The Gentleman or Builder's Companion, containing Variety of useful Designs for Doors, Gateways, Peers, Pavilions, Temples, Chimney-pieces etc .... described subsequently as `the earliest published group of furniture designs by an English designer' (S. Jervis, The Dictionary of Design and Designers , London, 1984). Plate 48 of Jones's Companion illustrates a mirror with a similar broken pediment above a foliate entablature centred by a classical mask. A white-painted pier mirror of similar form was sold from the collection of Jasper Conran, Christie's, London, 14 September 2021, lot 47 (£75,000 including premium). Condition Report: Good, structurally secure, with minor dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. Re-gilt and the glass probably replaced in the 19th century, with minor foxing around the edges. The backs of the side swags are a bit cleaned off and they may actually be replaced. There are multiple old drilled hanging holes to the backboards indicative of good age. The gilding with minor wear and small chips to extremities. Overall in good condition and ready to hang. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A PAIR OF GILTWOOD MIRRORS, CIRCA 1900

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‡ A PAIR OF GILTWOOD SIDE TABLES, CIRCA 1900

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD SETTEES, CIRCA 1785

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD SETTEES CIRCA 1785 Upholstered in pale blue silk damask, each with a waterleaf, beaded and foliate frame with scrolled arms and loose cushion, on tapering turned and fluted legs 95cm high, 203cm wide, 85cm deep Provenance: With Mallett, London, illustrated in their 2014 catalogue (pp. 166 - 169) Acquired from Mackinnon, London, by the present owner. Although it's not possible to attribute these sofas with any certainty, their design and quality infer that they must have been made by one of the more prestigious chair-makers active in the last quarter of the 18 th century. Certain features suggest they might be the work of Messrs. Ince and Mayhew of Soho, London, notably the leaf-carved plinth upon which the arm support rests which featured in giltwood chairs supplied by the firm in 1786 to William Pierce Ashe à Court and in 1795 to Thomas Allen while a set of painted chairs supplied in 1782 to the Dowager Duchess of Beaufort featured a leaf-carved collar at the top of the leg (though not the double collar as in the present lot (see H. Roberts and C. Cator, Industry and Ingenuity The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew , London, 2022, p. 365, figs. 329 and 331, and p. 364, fig. 325). Gillows, the prolific Lancaster furniture makers also supplied seat furniture featuring the same leaf-carved plinth, as displayed on chairs sold anonymously Christie's, New York, 22 April 1999, lot 76, one chair of which bore the pencil inscription R.Gillow . Condition Report: Good, structurally secure, with dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. Re-gilt. There are minor chips and losses to the gilding. Some minor old (inactive) worm to the seat frames. The upholstery clean and the webbing tight. The cushions well stuffed. The seat was previously sprung from the evidence of the nailing on the underside of the seat rails. One sofa repairs and possible replacement to the back legs. Overall a good pair of sofas in ready-to-use condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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Y‡ AN EARLY VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND FLORAL MARQUETRY BUREAU, CIRCA 1840

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Y‡ AN EARLY VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, INDIAN ROSEWOOD, WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY EDWARD HOLMES BALDOCK, CIRCA 1840 The shaped rectangular top with a gilt-tooled brown leather-lined top above a conforming frieze with three drawers, on cabriole legs headed by pierced foliate and C-scroll clasps, reeded chutes and sabot feet, the underside branded EHB and with G. TROLLOPE & SONS label, hand-written A.SA/ 319 label 75cm high, 123cm wide, 64cm deep Provenance: Anonymous sale Christie's, London, 1 April 2014, lot 387 Acquired from Butchoff Antiques, London by the present owner During the 19 th century elegant Louis XV style bureaux plats became popular furnishings in British drawing rooms. This example, displaying high quality floral marquetry, well-burnished bronze mounts and a fine mellow colour and patina bears the branded initials of Edward Holmes Baldock, one of the most influential figures in the London art market in the first half of the 19 th century. Established in the early 19th century with premises in Hanway Street, London, in 1805 he described himself as a dealer in china and glass, but by 1826 his bill head records that he specialised in `buying, selling, exchanging and valuing China, Cabinets, Screens, Bronzes etc'. He also undertook repairs, alterations and improvements to existing furniture, provided designs for and even made new furniture, though evidence of the latter is scant and he may well have contracted out such work in the manner of the Parisian marchands-merciers . His patrons included royalty and the wealthy aristocracy and when he retired from business in 1843 his stock was sold, including work in progress and part-complete antiques, many bearing his brand. Examples of his work, including an English marquetry centre table supplied to the Duke of Buccleuch, are illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700 - 1840 , Leeds, 1996, pp. 76 - 80, figs. 39 - 50. George Trollope was part of a family firm of decorators, established by 1820 at 15 Parliament Street, London, as paper hangers; ten years later they advertised themselves as `house agents, paper hangers, upholsterers, carvers, gilders, house-painters and glaziers to His Majesty, and by 1850 they appear to have added `cabinet-makers' to their talents. It's possible that Trollope supplied the table to Baldock prior to his retirement in 1843, but more likely that they acquired the table later for one of their own prestigious patrons. Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. The leather top with some marks and impressed heat rings bu generally good. The central drawer is tight and might benefit from easing. Overall in good, clean and honest condition and ready to use. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A MATCHED PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZED AND PARCEL-GILT X-FRAME STOOLS, CIRCA 1810

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‡ A MATCHED PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZED AND PARCEL-GILT X-FRAME STOOLS AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS HOPE, CIRCA 1810 The curved frames with griffin-headed terminals and buttoned striped green silk velvet seats on lion paw feet, differences in construction and in detail 67cm high, 79cm wide, 50cm deep Provenance: Acquired from Mackinnon, London by the present owner These stools, designed in the French antique manner, derive from a ram-headed pattern published in Thomas Hope's, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration , 1807, pl.29 and intended for Hope's own Duchess Street house, effectively a museum where visitors could see Hope's collection inspired by antiquity (the Prince of Wales attended the grand opening in 1802). A stool conforming to Hope's design was sold from the collection of Ann and Gordon Getty, Christie's, New York, 23 October 2022, lot 508 ($25,200 including premium). Related variants of the pattern are illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, Dictionary of English Furniture , Woodbridge, 1954, vol. I, p. 182, fig. 68, a lion-headed version, and another in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1820 , London, 1948, fig.85, a ram-headed version from the collection of Viscount Allendale, Bretton Park. Condition Report: Generally good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches due to age and use. Redecorated and with flaking and minor losses. Upholstery is clean. There are differences in detail and in construction, stool A with just a single bearer beneath the seat, and with metal braces supporting the joints, stool B with a double bearer beneath the seat. Stool A with feet made of single pieces of wood, stool B with feet made of pieced-up wood. Either method is an acceptable technique for making. There are also minor differences in the detail of the reeded bosses. Such stools were made in quantities so could easily be from different sources but matched up to make a `pair'. Overall in good clean and ready to use condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS, CIRCA 1790

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‡ A GEORGE III GRAINED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED FOUR-POST BED, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1790

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‡ A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, AFTER A DESIGN BY JAMES WYATT, CIRCA 1790 Upholstered in dove-grey watered silk, each with a shield shaped back and part-padded arms with leaf-carved supports above a serpentine seat, the rails fluted and with rosette blocks, on tapering turned fluted and leaf-carved legs 98cm high, 61cm wide, 65cm deep Provenance: Acquired from Mackinnon, London by the present owner. Literature: S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840 , vol.1, p.181, pl.146 - 147 This French form of 'cabriolet' chair with roman 'pelta' shield back was introduced in the 1770's and relates to a pattern by the architect James Wyatt (d.1813) as shown in a room elevation (see J. Cornforth and J.Fowler, English Decoration in the 18th Century , 1974, p.29, fig.13). A closely related shield-back armchair design is included in the Estimate Sketch Books of the firm of Gillows of Lancaster and London (see L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760 - 1800 , Royston, 1995, fig.267). The design, featuring leaf-carved frames and dated 25 October 1786, was commissioned for Mr. Robert Peel, Esq., the leaf carving was attributed to H. Gibson. Both James Wyatt and his older brother Samuel (d.1807) worked closely with the Gillows firm. Their spare neo-classical style focussed the eye on the form and lustrous surfaces of the furniture they designed while exercising restraint in ornament, gilding and inlay and they raised Gillows' designs to new levels. One design from the early 1780s proved so popular that it was known as `Wyatt's pattern chair'. Chairs of almost identical design were supplied to William Wyndham Greville (d.1834) for his country house Dropmore, Bucks, built in 1795 to designs by Samuel Wyatt and Charles Heatcote Tatham (d.1842). Lord Grenville served as Prime Minister to George III, 1806 - 1807, after the death of William Pitt the Younger, as leader of a coalition `Ministry of All the Talents', and while there are no surviving records of the original furnishings for Dropmore, Greville's name is recorded in Gillows Estimate Sketch Book for 1796. A set of ten armchairs of this pattern was sold from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Groves, Christie's, New York, 8 April 2004, lot 260 ($38,240 including premium), another set of four, one bearing the pencil inscription R Gillow, was sold Christie's, New York, 22 April 1999, lot 76 ($18,400 including premium). Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches consistent with age and use. Regilt, with some flaking and minor loss. Both chairs with later blocks to he rear seat rails to stabilise the joints. Upholstery is clean and the webbing tight. Overall a good clean and attractive pair of chairs fit for use. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGÈRES, CIRCA 1775

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‡ PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS CABRIOLET, ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-BAPTISTE SENE

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‡ PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS EN CABRIOLET ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-BAPTISTE SENE, CIRCA 1780 Upholstered in faux leopard skin, each with a shaped leaf-tip-carved back flanked by fluted columns with turned finials and part-padded arms with fluted and foliate baluster supports above a bowed padded seat, on tapering turned and fluted legs with rosette blocks 89cm high, 56cm wide, 52cm deep Jean-Baptiste Sené, maitre in 1769 Jean-Baptiste Claude Sené, son of the menusier Claude I Sené, established his business in the rue du Cléry at the sign of the Gros Chapelet. In 1785 he was appointed fournisseur du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne alongside Jean-Baptiste Boulard, and he gradually supplanted the latter to rank among the most celebrated menuisiers of the Louis XVI period. Royal patronage dominated the vast majority of his mature career, and he was responsible for supplying seat-furniture to the King and Queen at Saint-Cloud, Versailles, Compiègne and Fontainebleau. After the Revolution, Sené worked as an administrator for the new Republican government and consequently was able to continue producing furniture unlike many of his contemporaries. A related pair or marquises, probably by Sené, featuring a similar arm pattern and distinctive baluster supports was sold Christie's, Paris, 6 November 2015, lot 878 (€27,500 including premium). They in turn correspond to bergères delivered by Séné for the salon de compagnie of Madame Elisabeth in Montreuil (Louvre Museum, inv. OA 11164 and 11165) as well as with seat furniture in the grand cabinet of Marie-Antoinette at the Château de Saint-Cloud (Louvre Museum, inv. OA 9452 A, B and C, various parts of this suite have been sold at auction over the past 25 years). Another pair of beechwood fauteuils cabriolet closely related in design to the present lot, one stamped by Séné, was sold Christie's, Paris, 10 November 2004, lot 270 (€4700 including premium). Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. The upholstery is clean and the webbing tight, the seats are sprung. Refreshments to the gilding, there is wear and scuffing overall, some flaking and loss, notably to the chair backs. Pegged construction. Overall in reasonable order and ready to use condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, PADOUK AND MARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE, CIRCA 1880

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‡ A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, PADOUK AND MARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE ATTRIBUTED TO EMMANUEL ZWIENER, CIRCA 1880 The breche d'Alep marble veneered top above a deep drawer centred by a cartouche and bouquet of leafy stems within a scrolled rockwork and foliate frame, the sides similarly decorated, on cabriole legs headed by bold foliate clasps, with reeded chutes and scrolled sabots 94cm high, 160cm wide, 61cm deep Provenance: Acquired from Butchoff Antiques, London by the present owner The brothers Emmanuel and Julius Zwiener, working in Paris and Berlin respectively, established themselves as premier haut luxe cabinetmakers of the late 19th century and founded the award-winning 'Zwiener style' lauded at the international exhibitions from 1889 onward. They established their businesses in the 1880 at 12 Rue de la Roquette, Paris. Julius returned to Berlin in the mid-1890s to establish a workshop to rival the Paris ateliers, from which he produced important furnishings for Kaiser Wilhelm II. Emmanuel remained in Paris but is thought to have retired, selling the workshops to Jean-Henri Jansen, founder of Maison Jansen, who continued the business, using Zwiener's original models. The exceptional quality of Zwiener's craftsmanship, extensive use of fine gilt-bronze in combination with the finest bois de bout marquetry, invites comparisons to the work of famed ébéniste , François Linke (1855-1946). Zwiener almost certainly employed Linke, who was six years younger and a fellow German-speaker. Both cabinetmakers used mounts by the gifted sculptor, Léon Messagé, whose studio on the rue Sedaine was in close proximity to the Zwiener workshops and Linke's at 170, rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with minor dents, marks and scratches due to age and use. The marble top with old repaired break. Some discoloration/corrosion and occasional lifting to the ormolu. Minor occasional shrinkage in the kingwood veneers. Otherwise in good clean and ready to use condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS, ATTRIBUTED TO INCE & MAYHEW

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‡ A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL

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‡ A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1775 Upholstered in embroidered yellow silk, each with a ribbon-tied cresting and husk-carved back above a padded serpentine seat with fluted rails on drapery-carved turned reeded legs with block feet, minor variation in scale and carving 101cm high, 67cm wide, 72cm deep Provenance: Possibly Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1962, lot 128. A distinguished private collection, acquired from Partridge, London, 1999. Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 24 October 2017, lot 58. These armchairs, of impressive scale, relate loosely to a suite of seat furniture traditionally attributed to the father and son partnership of William and John Linnell of Berkeley Square, London. The extensive suite of at least seventeen armchairs, two settees and a smaller settee was almost certainly supplied to the 2nd Earl of Halifax (d. 1771) for Stansted Park, Sussex, and relates to a design by John Linnell (d. 1796) now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (acc. no. E78-1929). Other features reinforce the attribution to Linnell, in particular the tied-ribbon cresting and the drapery swags to the legs are motifs borrowed directly from fashionable Louis XVI furniture and correspond to a design by the French architecte-decorateur J. B. Delafosse (d. 1889) for whom Linnell seems to have had a particular affinity. Here the swags are carved and integral with the turned legs, but Linnell also rendered similar swags in ormolu. In addition, the straight back leg and squared arm terminal feature in other seat furniture and designs that are associated with Linnell. A chair sharing many features with the present lot but with a shaped rather than square back was sold at Christie's, New York, 8 October 2015, lot 153 ($6,250 including premium). The chairs offered here were sold from a distinguished private collection, Christie's, New York, 24 October 2017, lot 58 ($162,500 including premium). Another pair of the same pattern and formerly in the collection of Sir William Miles Aykroyd, 3 rd Bt (d.2007) at Buckland Newton Place, Dorset, was sold from the collection of the eminent furniture historian Philip Hewatt-Jaboor (d.2022) at Christie's, London, 8 February 2024, lot 70 (£23,940 including premium). Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. Re-gilt, with minor wear, flaking and very small chips to corners and edges. The upholstery is clean and the webbing tight. The corner struts probably replaced, previously with screwed corner blocks to the front joints. Chair B with small loss to moulding on back right leg. Chair D with small cut in repairs to bottom edge of back seat rail. Overall a good and scarce set of four generous armchairs in ready-to-use condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR, CIRCA 1760

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‡ A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM AND JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1760 The central rectangular and arched plates surrounded by multiple marginal mirrors in a frame of rockwork and foliate C-scrolls, the sides hung with swags, the upper plates centred by a cabochon and surmounted by pierced and overhanging ogee scrolls and a central basket of flowers, the mirrors largely original 260cm high, 135cm wide Provenance: Acquired from Mackinnon, London by the present owner. Literature: H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell , London, 1980 H. Hayward, 'The Drawings of John Linnell in the Victoria & Albert Museum', Furniture History , Leeds, 1969 The mirror, of stately proportions, is designed in the `Modern' or `French' style of the mid-18th century. It relates closely to a design by the father and son partnership of William (d.1763) and John (d.1796) Linnell of Berkeley Square, London. Together they created one of the most prominent and prolific firms of cabinet-makers of the second half of the 18th century. William had established his first workshop in Long Acre in 1729 and was joined by his son in 1749, as the business grew and prospered they moved to new premises in fashionable Berkeley Square in 1754. Among their notable patrons were the 4th Duke of Beaufort, Badminton House (in the 1750s), the banker Richard Hoare, Barn Elms, Richmond and Stourhead, Wilts (1739 - 54), and Sir Nathaniel Curzon, later 1st Baron Scarsdale, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire (1758 - 96). The mirror's design corresponds closely to a drawing of circa 1755 - 60 by the Linnell firm, executed as a pair of mirrors for Sir Molyneux Cope, 7th Bt, for Bramshill, Hampshire (H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell , London, p.98, figs. 187 & 188). In particular the drawing features a distinctive cresting in the form of a basket of flowers which was a recurring motif in the firm's works A related mirror was supplied in 1759 to George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry for `Lady Coventry's Dressing Room', Croome Court, Worcestershire. An invoice issued by William Linnell in 1759 likely refers to this mirror and it was recorded in some detail in subsequent inventories at Croome Court, in 1902 and 1930. It was sold from Croome at Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1948, lot 143, and again from Mount Congreve, Co. Waterford, Christie's, London, 23 May 2012, lot 100 (£313,250 including premium). Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with dents, marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. Re-gilt. There is some minor flaking and very small losses to the gilding. There are minor losses to the carving and repairs to some leaf tips and other peripheral carvings. Losses include small leaf carving to left of upper central plate. The glass apparently largely original and/or old, with a just a small few plates of later (distressed) date. The overall look is of nicely aged and foxed glass of soft colour. The back largely covered with a hardboard panel. Overall a highly impressive and good scale overmantel in ready-to-hang condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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‡ A MATCHED PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND FLORAL MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLES, CIRCA 1868

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‡ A MATCHED PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BURR-ELM, KINGWOOD CROSSBANDED AND FLORAL MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLES BY BLAKE, LONDON, CIRCA 1868 Each with an oval top inlaid with a basket of flowers and flowering stems within a border of interlaced strapwork, with a concealed kingwood and red silk velvet lined slide and two mahogany-lined end drawers, the frieze with further strapwork panels and foliate clasps, on cabriole legs joined by shaped stretchers with a central laurel-swagged vase and with foliate sabots 69cm high, 143cm wide, 54cm deep Provenance: One table supplied to Sir Henry Hope Edwardes Bt. (1829-1900) for Wootton Hall Derbyshire. By descent to Lt Colonel Herbert James Hope-Edwardes, Netley Hall Shropshire. By descent to Lady More (nee Hope-Edwardes, d.1994), thence to Linley Hall, Shropshire. Sold Christie's, London, Linley Hall, Shropshire, Property from the Collection of the late Sir Jasper and Lady More, 9 March 2016, lot 91. The matched pair acquired from Butchoff Antiques, London by the present owner. These tables, of remarkable quality and rather eccentric form, were supplied by the pre-eminent London form Blake and inspired by the renowned Parisian maker André-Charles Boulle. It's unusual six-legged design relates most closely to a drawing by Boulle in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (inv. 723 B 1) and to a number of associated console tables by Boulle. Boulle counted among his patrons many of the most celebrated members of the French aristocracy up to and including the Sun King, Louis XIV, and his fame continued after his death such that work continued to be avidly collected and in the 19 th century cabinet-makers made high quality reproductions of celebrated Boulle works, and original works inspired by earlier creations. The Blake family are perhaps less well known than many of their 19 th century competitors and collaborators, but they are documented as makers of fine `buhl' furniture as early as 1826 when Robert Blake is recorded as a `cabinet inlayer and buhl manufacturer' at 8 Stephen Street, London (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700 - 1840 , Leeds,, 1996, p.18). Over subsequent decades Robert's sons George, Charles, James and Henry were all associated with the firm, and they occupied various premises as the firm's activities and fortunes changed. Their interest in Boulle as a designer is illustrated by the series of commodes, exact replicas of those created by Boulle, for Louis XIV at the Grand Trianon of which a pair is in the Frick Collection (116.5.02-3). The firm are likely to have executed ambitious works for the dealer Edward Holmes Baldock, an `ostentatiously splendid' Erard grand piano by G.H.Blake supplied to Thomas Lord Foley for Witley Court is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (59.76) and there is a circular table at Alnwick Castle made by Henry Blake between 1854 - 65. A marquetry table by Blake at Goodwood House is illustrated in M. Levy, `E.H.Baldock and the Blake Family', Furniture History Society Newsletter , May 2005, p.1. The table was almost certainly commissioned or acquired by Sir Henry Hope Edwardes Bt. (d.1900), a keen collector of both period and superb contemporary furniture evocations of 18 th century furniture. Hope Edwardes patronised many of London's most prestigious dealers and makers including Annoot and Gillow and he had strong links with the family of Edward Holmes Baldock. His collecting was at its peak though the 1860s to the 1880s, and the family archive contains a bill of 1868 from Blake listing a `Small French table of Tulipwood & etc the top richly inlaid in marquetrie... with drawers in frieze' at a cost of £44. Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with minor dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. Both tables of good colour and reasonably consistent. The ormolu of very good quality, the odd mount is slightly loose. The marquetry in good order with very minor cracks and lifting, there are no obvious major losses. Overall a good pair of very high quality tables in good condition and ready to use, they would make excellent sofa table. Condition Report Disclaimer

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III WHITE PAINTED AND PARCEL GILT ARMCHAIRS, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III WHITE PAINTED AND PARCEL GILT ARMCHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1770 Each with a cartouche-shaped padded back, padded arms and serpentine seat, the front rail centred by a shell and leaf clasp, on cabriole legs with foliate feet, one with label FROM I. & J. ASHFORD'S (Late J. & D. Bright & co.) CABINET CHAIR & Upholstery manufactory, Saxmundham, Suffolk , the webbing and scrim apparently original 90.5cm high, 66cm wide, 51cm deep Provenance: Acquired for Benacre Hall, Suffolk, seat of the Gooch baronets, probably after 1865 Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 17th November 2016, Lot 30 (£18,750 including premium) Private Collection, UK. Literature: Inventory of the Property of Sir Thomas Vere Sherlock Gooch, Benacre Hall, June 1918 , p.102, in the ball room (a set of ten). Inventory and Valuation of the Contents of Benacre Hall, the Property of Sir Thomas Gooch, Bt., 1933 , p. 18, in the ball room. H. Hayward & P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell , London, 1980, vol. II p.34 & 127 figs. 61 & 250. This set of parcel gilt 'French' chairs can be confidently attributed to John Linnell (d. 1796) on the basis of the virtually identical set comprising eight armchairs and two sofas, supplied by Linnell in 1768 to William Drake of Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire, and now in the collection of His Majesty the King (H. Hayward, P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell , vol. II, New York, 1980, pp. 34, 127, figs. 61, 250). Drake was a long-standing client of both William and John Linnell, the relationship persisting for some 25 years from 1749. The seat furniture, intended for the drawing-room at Shardeloes, was originally covered in crimson silk damask `nailed with the best gilt nails' to match the wall hangings and curtains. A related design of circa 1765 - 70 in pen and ink and watercolour shows the chair with a yellow (gilt?) frame and green upholstery is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (59 1929). Other comparable chairs include a set illustrated in the Drawing Room at Hagley Hall, Worcestershire, seat of George, 1st Lord Lyttelton, almost certainly also a patron of Linnell who supplied furniture to Lyttelton's brother and mistress, and another set of four with virtually identical carving on the arm terminals, legs, and identical in the manner that the arm joins the seat frame, in the collection of the National Trust and now at Uppark House, West Sussex (J. Cornforth, 'Hagley Hall, Worcestershire', Country Life , CLXXXIII, 4 May 1989, figs. 1, 6; C. Hussey, English Country Homes: Early Georgian 1715-1760 , London, 1955, p. 199, fig. 355; NT 137691.1-4). The present chairs were evidently retailed in the latter part of the 19th century by Isaac and James Ashford, antique dealers and furniture-makers, who were established in Saxmundham, Suffolk from at least 1865; recorded in the Post Office Directory at this date as 'Ashford Issac & James, cabinet makers .'. The brothers had married two of Jerome Bright's daughters, the latter a jeweller and clockmaker, and later took over his premises, J.D. Bright & Co. at Ashford House, Saxmundham, to run their business. Condition Report: Generally good and structurally secure. There are dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks due to age and use. As noted the decoration is refreshed. There are minor differences in detail of the carving as to be expected in a long set. Condition Report Disclaimer

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Auction date(s): Nov 18

Lot location: Newbury, Berkshire

Auction currency	GBP
Buyer's premium	27 % (exc. Sales tax)
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