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

Lot 17
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1250845
Lot 17 | A PAIR OF GEORGE I BLACK, RED AND GILT CHINESE LACQUER AND JAPANNED HALL CHAIRS
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£ 60 000 – 100 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE I BLACK, RED AND GILT CHINESE LACQUER AND JAPANNED HALL CHAIRS
CIRCA 1720
Each back and seat in Chinese Export lacquer, the rectangular back with re-entrant corners depicting a watery pagoda landscape below the arms of Heathcote impaling Parker, the seat with conforming landscape, the japanned seatrail centred by a scallop shell, on broken cabriole legs with flying brackets on ogee pad feet, the underside to one chair with printed and inscribed depository label 'Winter & Co. / Furniture Depositors / L. F. Hallcot [?] / Royal Bank of Scotland / No2 / LONDON, W.11' another label to the rear right leg proper of the same chair 'DEPT. OF WOOD(WORK) / ON LOAN FROM...[?]'
46 in. (116.5 cm.) high; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.6 cm.) deep (2)




Provenance

The original suite of at least ten 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;
Henry McLaren, 2nd Bt. Aberconway (1879–1953) for Aberconway House, No. 38 South Street, London and possibly from a set of four sold Christie’s, London, 21 December 1920, lot 57 (possibly those illustrated in the Hall at Aberconway House, 38 South Street, London in the 1920s);
thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

O. Brackett, English Furniture Illustrated, rev. ed., London, 1950, p. 132, pl. CIV (illustrating the present pair).

Comparative Literature
G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, London, 1987, p. 58, fig. 1.
L. Synge, Mallett Millennium, London, 2000, p. 34, fig. 25.
F. Mcgill, A Curious Affair: The Fascination Between East and West, San Francisco, 2006, pp. 40-41.
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