Provenance & Patina: Important English Furniture from a West Coast Collection

Provenance & Patina: Important English Furniture from a West Coast Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1055. A Set of Four George II Mahogany and Armorial-Painted Hall Chairs, Circa 1755.

A Set of Four George II Mahogany and Armorial-Painted Hall Chairs, Circa 1755

Auction Closed

June 18, 08:33 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

each with yoke-shaped toprails with a vertical and horizontal trellis-form back headed with a painted cartouche bearing the arms of the East family, with solid, dished seats on square tapering legs and block feet 


height 37 in.; width 19 ¼ in.; depth 18 in.

94 cm; 48.9 cm; 45.7 cm

Commissioned by Edward East of Jamaica, circa 1755-60;

By descent to Sir James East, 2nd Bt. at Bourton House, Gloucestershire, thence by descent;

Mallam's Cheltenham, 6 June 2013, lot 50;

Michael Pashby, New York.