A GEORGE II MAHOGANY STOOL

This stool with serpentine legs festooned with flowers issuing from Roman acanthus clasps and terminating in foliated and embossed cartouches may possibly be the one sold by a Nobleman, Christie's London, 2 October 1975, lot 35. It comprises part of a larger suite of which other examples are known. A library chair from the collection of Arthur D. Leidesdorf was sold Sotheby & Co., London, 27-28 June 1974, lot 67 and is illustrated in C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, Eighteenth Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, p. 42. Another pair from the collection of George D. Widener was sold Christie's New York, 12-13 October 1995, lot 194. A matching settee belonging to Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly was sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 6-8 January 1955, lot 469.