A pair of Regency giltwood footstools circa 1810

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

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Description

22.5cm. high, 44cm. wide, 42cm. deep; 8¾in., 1ft. 5¼in., 1ft. 4½in.

Provenance

Supplied to William, 3rd Viscount Courtenay, later 9th Earl of Devon (1768-1835) and thence by descent.

Literature

Inventory 1835, recorded in the Late Earl's Bedroom
Inventory 1880, recorded in the State Room
Illustrated 'Powderham Castle I', Mark Girouard, Country Life, July 4^th 1963, Vol. CXXXIV, p. 20 in the Gold Drawing Room.

Catalogue Note

For comparison see the designs from 1808 of footstools by George Smith, he uses very similar rounded stylised flowerhead motifs, leaf carved side bars and paw feet featured on the offered lot. See Edward Joy et al, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 267.