A PAIR OF GEORGE II EBONIZED AND PARCEL-GILT STOOLS

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20.10.2022 18:00UTC -05:00
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ID 819747
Los 12 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II EBONIZED AND PARCEL-GILT STOOLS
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$ 150 000 – 250 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE II EBONIZED AND PARCEL-GILT STOOLS

CIRCA 1740, POSSIBLY ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED AS STANDS

Each with a later drop-in rectangular seat upholstered in handwoven Bevilacqua silk velvet, over rails with applied Vitruvian scrolls, supported on canted molded C-scrolls with husk ornaments extending into curved legs with paw feet, the apron centered by an elephant's head, the sides with a scallop shell above pendant husks terminating in clasps of scrolled acanthus leaves, all supporting draped garlands of acorns and oak leaves, redecorated, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm.) high, 25 1/2 in. (64.8 cm.) wide, 21 1/2 in. (54.6 cm.) deep





Provenance

Almost certainly commissioned by Hugh, 14th Baron Clinton and 1st Earl Fortescue (d.1751) for Castle Hill, Devon and by descent to

The Lady Margaret Fortescue, Castle Hill, Devon; Christie's, London, 21 April 1966, lot 148.

Clarendon Court, Newport, Rhode Island; Sotheby's, New York, 28-29 October 1988, lot 475 (with later marble tops).

Acquired from Mallett, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1989.

The seat coverings acquired from Mario Bevilacqua, Venice, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 2002.





Literature

G. Beard and Judith Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, London, 1987, p. 100, fig. 3.

L. Synge, Mallett's Great English Furniture, London, 1991, p. 91, fig. 98.





Exhibited

San Francisco, The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, Animalia: Animals in Art and Antiques, 27-30 October 2016.



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