Live Auction 8014The Cowdray Sale: Works of Art from Cowdray Park and Dunecht House, At Cowdray Park, West Sussex
A SET OF TWELVE ENGLISH WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
Lot 87

A SET OF TWELVE ENGLISH WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS

LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF DANIEL MAROT

Closed15 September 2011

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GBP 9,375

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A SET OF TWELVE ENGLISH WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF DANIEL MAROT
Each with elaborately carved pierced backs centred by a classical male portrait bust, above pale olive velvet covered seats on turned tapering legs joined by X-stretchers, one with an inventory label 'Cowdray/213/1919', each of the others inscribed 'C213-12', the rear seat rail of one example indistinctly inscribed 's.Mantz?'
55½ in. (141 cm.) high; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep (12)

Specialist note

The decoration of these chairs follows closely the fashionable Louis Quatorze Roman style, popularised by the Livres d'Appartments issued by Daniel Marot (d. 1752), 'architect' to William III. The triumphal arched backs with ornately scrolled foliate carving is typical of the designs produced by the great Huguenot draughtsman.
A set of chairs of related design attributed to Thomas Roberts, appointed chief supplier to the Royal Household in 1686, sold Christie's London, 26 April 2007, lot 294.