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AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY DOUBLE-CHAIRBACK SETTEE
Lot 52 Property from a Philadelphia Collection

AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY DOUBLE-CHAIRBACK SETTEE

CIRCA 1745, THE RIGHT CRESTRAIL PROBABLY REPLACED

Closed19 April 2012

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AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY DOUBLE-CHAIRBACK SETTEE
CIRCA 1745, THE RIGHT CRESTRAIL PROBABLY REPLACED
The double-back joined by a pierced shell, with foliate and flower-head carved backs, with out-scrolled eagle-head arms, above an associated contemporary gros and petit-point needlework seat, on bead-carved cabriole legs and paw feet, with paper label inscribed 1 to underside of back rail, formerly with casters
49½ in. (126 cm.) wide, over arms

Count Louis Zborowski (1895-1924), Higham Park, Canterbury, Kent.
With J. Rochelle Thomas, London.
George Horace Lorimer; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 29 March - 1 April 1944, lot 811.

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Count Louis Zborowski achieved fame as a race-car driver and engineer, notably producing a series of motor cars known as Chitty Bang Bang, which inspired Ian Fleming's novel and subsequent movie. Zborowski's American mother was born Margaret Laura Astor Carey (1853-1911), a granddaughter of William Backhouse Astor, Sr., and his father, the Polish Count William Eliot Morris Zborowski, was also a race-car driver. Both father and son were killed in car crashes.