Live Auction 2202Christie's Interiors
Lot 489

A PAIR OF DUTCH WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS,

EARLY 18TH CENTURY,

Closed2 October 2009

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USD 937

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A PAIR OF DUTCH WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS,
EARLY 18TH CENTURY,
each with white paper label inscribed in black pen 'Lilies [?] 579'
45in. (114cm.) high, 22in. (56cm.) wide, 18in. (45.7cm.) deep (2)

Bought from H.W. Keil, Broadway, Worcestershire, 1965.

Specialist note

A set of related 'bended' back parlour chairs, raised on bacchic satyr hooves, was commissioned in 1717 for George I's Hampton Court dining room from the court chair-maker Richard Roberts (d.1733), who traded at 'The Royal Chair' in Marylebone Street (G. Beard and J. Cross, 'Thomas and Richard Roberts', Apollo, September 1998, pp. 46-48 and fig. 2).