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A Queen Anne carved walnut and upholstered stool, early 18th century
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- 46cm. high, 46cm. wide, 38cm. deep; 1ft. 6in., 1ft. 6in., 1ft. 3in.
the rectangular stuff seat with conforming cushion, the canted scrolled legs with pierced knees, the long sides with carved and pierced stretcher rails and with a turned H-shaped stretcher, one pierced stretcher rail replaced
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Colonel Norman Colville M.C. (1893-1974). Sold Christie`s, King Street, June 14th 2001, lot 64.
Catalogue Note
Norman Colville's collection was assembled primarily after the First World War. The offered lot is a fine example of a collecting area close to Colville's heart: seat furniture. Margaret Jourdain in an article on upholstered furniture written for Country Life in October 1923 describes his collection as 'A remarkable gathering of fine and individual furniture'. Many of Colville's pieces were illustrated by Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards in their Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1927. Although they do not use an image of this stool, they do illustrate an example with similar pierced and carved scroll brackets to each leg in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, vol. II p. 166, fig. 25.