Live Auction 16270The Collector: English and European 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A PAIR OF RUSSIAN BRASS-MOUNTED SOLID MAHOGANY TABOURETS DE VOYAGE
Lot 262 The Property of a Florida Collector

A PAIR OF RUSSIAN BRASS-MOUNTED SOLID MAHOGANY TABOURETS DE VOYAGE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 October 2018

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN BRASS-MOUNTED SOLID MAHOGANY TABOURETS DE VOYAGE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with rectangular padded seat upholstered in Senneh kilim fragments, circa 1900, above a paneled seatrail, on detachable baluster-turned legs headed by roundels
16 ½ in. (41.9 cm.) high, 19 ¾ in. (50.1 cm.) wide, 14 ¼ in. (36.1 cm.) deep

The Garrick C. Stephenson Collection; Christie's, New York, 29 October 1993, lot 129.

Specialist note

The American designer Garrick C. Stephenson (1927-2007) was a true collector with an instinctive eye and arbiter of taste. After studying at Yale and the Parsons School of Design, he joined the New York firm McMillen & Co. before founding his own company in 1959. The greatest American collectors quickly counted among his clients.

Part of his collection was sold in these rooms, 29 October 1993, and highlight his particular taste for neoclassicism and more specifically for mahogany furniture. The Stephenson Collection featured many pieces of this exciting moment in the history of taste.