A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS

Los 43
06.02.2025 00:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
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ID 1360104
Los 43 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS
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$ 60 000 – 100 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS
ALMOST CERTAINLY DESIGNED BY WILLIAM KENT AND ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM HALLETT, CIRCA 1735
Each with joined fluted cornucopiae crest-rail crisply scrolled at the angles, the imbricated sides carved with pendant husks flanking an upholstered back and seat covered in green cut velvet, the seat-rail with paneled Greek-key frieze hung with floral garland swags centered by scrolled cartouches, the sides similarly swagged, on shaped and waved legs headed by acanthus with imbricated sides, the inscrolled feet on leather-wrapped brass castors; minor variations to dimensions, both chairs with Roman numerals engraved to underside of back rail of drop-in seat frame rail, and with an applied old paper label; one chair engraved ‘IIII’ and the label inscribed in black ink: ‘X.2028/ one of four / with a settee’, the other chair engraved ‘II’ and similarly inscribed: ‘X.2027/ one of four / and a settee’
38 ¾ in. (98.4 cm.) high, 26 in. (66 cm.) wide, 26 in. (66 cm.) deep




Provenance

Almost certainly supplied either to Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1697-1759) for Holkham Hall, Norfolk, or to his younger brother Robert Coke (d.1750) for Longford Hall, Derbyshire.
Thence by descent to Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham (1754-1842).
Thence by descent to his son, the Hon. Edward Keppel Coke, Longford Hall, Derbyshire (1824-1889),
Removed from Longford Hall when sold from his estate; Christie's, London, 26 April 1917, lot 86 and described as ‘A settee and four chairs, by William Kent, carved with animals’ heads, festoons of flowers, cornucopiae of fruit, key- and scale-pattern, the carving partly gilt on a painted brown ground’ (the settee and four armchairs, to M. Harris).
With Moss Harris, London.
The Collection of Sir William Lever, Bt., later 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), The Hill, Hampstead;
Until sold by order of the executors, Anderson Galleries, New York, 9-13 February 1926, lot 289 (the settee, to Frank Partridge, Inc.).
The Property of David Style, Esq., Wateringbury Place, Maidstone, Kent; Christie's, London, 1-2 June 1978, lot 571 (the settee and four armchairs).
Acquired by Selim Zilkha through Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., London, from the above sale.



Literature

L. Wood, The Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, New Haven, 2008, vol. I, p. 340, fig. 206.
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, p. 20, figs. 9-10.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
G. Jackson-stops (ed.), The Treasure Houses of Britain, Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting, London, 1985, p. 240.
T. Murdoch (ed.), Noble Households, Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses, Cambridge, 2006.
S. Weber (ed.), William Kent Designing Georgian Britain, New York, 2013, p. 482.
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