A PAIR OF GEORGE I BLACK, RED AND GILT-JAPANNED AND CHINESE LACQUER HALL CHAIRS

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Los 319 | A PAIR OF GEORGE I BLACK, RED AND GILT-JAPANNED AND CHINESE LACQUER HALL CHAIRS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE I BLACK, RED AND GILT-JAPANNED AND CHINESE LACQUER HALL CHAIRS

ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES MOORE AND JOHN GUMLEY, CIRCA 1720

Each rectangular back with re-entrant corners decorated in Chinese Export lacquer depicting a watery pagoda landscaped below the arms of the Heathcote impaling Parker, the japanned seat with conforming landscape, the seatrail centered by a scallop shell, on hipped square tapering legs with flying brackets on pointed pad feet, the underside with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection label

46 1/2 in. (118 cm.) high, 19 3/8 in. (49.2 cm.) wide, 16 in. (40.6 cm.) deep





Provenance

The original suite of eight chairs commissioned by William Heathcote (1693-1751), later 1st Baronet, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Parker, daughter of the 1st Earl of Macclesfield, for Hursley Lodge, Hampshire;

Thence by descent to Lt. Col. Sir Gilbert R. Heathcote, 8th Bt. of Hursley (1854-1937), Bighton Wood, Arlesford, Hampshire;

Sold by The Venerable The Archdeacon Sir Francis C.C. Heathcote, 9th Bt. (1868-1961), as part of the Heathcote Heirlooms; Christie's, London, 26 May1938, lot 118.

Alexander Keiller (1889-1955), Avebury Manor, Wiltshire; Sotheby's, London, 21 January 1955, lot 178.

Mark Heathcoat-Amory; Christie's, London, 19 June 1980, lot 24 (the set of eight).

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 17 October 1981, lot 199 (this pair).

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.





Literature

O. Brackett, English Furniture Illustrated, rev. ed., London, 1950, p. 132, pl. CIV (two from the set of eight).

G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, London, 1987, p. 58, fig. 1 (one from the set of eight).

L. Synge, Mallett Millennium, London, 2000, p. 34, fig. 25 (two from the set of eight).

F. Mcgill, A Curious Affair: The Fascination Between East and West, San Francisco, 2006, pp. 40-41.





Exhibited

San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, A Curious Affair: The Fascination Between East and West, 17 June-3 September 2006.



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