A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY HALL STOOLS

Lot 11
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Lot 11 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY HALL STOOLS
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£ 60 000 – 100 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY HALL STOOLS

DESIGNED BY WILLIAM KENT, EXECUTED BY JAMES MOORE THE YOUNGER, 1730

Each with a rectangular seat above a fluted frieze with canted corners and a pierced double S-scroll and acanthus apron centred by a shell, the sides carved with conforming double S-scrolls and foliage, on panelled legs carved with trailing bell flowers and acanthus to the front and volute scrolls terminating in foliage to each side, with batten-carrying holes to the feet, small variations in carving to the aprons, one backrail veneered





Provenance

Designed by William Kent and supplied by James Moore to Sir John Dutton, Lodge Park, Sherborne, Gloucestershire, in 1730 (as a set of four stools, £20, and a pair of settees £30), thence by descent until,

sold by Lord Sherborne circa 1940, from whom the whole suite was acquired

Leonard Knight, London. The settees acquired by Temple Newsam, Leeds in 1943; the stools acquired by

Lord Wilton, Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, until 1950 when the set of four stools was split into two pairs.

One pair of stools: acquired by Royal Ontario Museum, 1999.

This pair of stools: The Benjamin Sonnenberg Collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, 6-9 June 1979, lot 1681, when acquired by

Mrs. Sandra Payson, thence by descent until sold

Christie's, London, 5 July 2018, lot 121.



Literature

For the suite:



D. Fitzgerald, 'A New Yorker's Unusual Collection', Apollo, March 1967, p. 164, fig. 7.

C. Gilbert, 'James Moore the Younger and William Kent at Sherbourne House', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. III, No. 792, March 1969, pp. 148-150, fig. 52.

'A pair of important George II mahogany stools' in Phillips Auction House, Fine Furniture at Phillips, Highlights from 1998: A Preview of Sales to come in 1999.

P. Kaellgren, 'Best Seats in the House:Two Eighteenth-century Stools recently acquired by the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) were part of a set designed by celebrated artist and architect William Kent', Rotunda 33, Fall, 2000, pp. 9-11.

S. Weber, 'Kent and the Georgian Baroque style in Furniture: Domestic Commissions', William Kent Designing Georgian Britain, New Haven and London, 2013, pp. 487-8, fig. 18.27.



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