Live Auction 7857Christie's Interiors
A SET OF FOUR VICTORIAN TEAK SIDE CHAIRS
Lot 235

A SET OF FOUR VICTORIAN TEAK SIDE CHAIRS

OF MUGHAL DESIGN, CIRCA 1870

Closed7 August 2012

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GBP 1,250

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A SET OF FOUR VICTORIAN TEAK SIDE CHAIRS
OF MUGHAL DESIGN, CIRCA 1870
Each with a foliate carved top rail and green-velvet drop-in seat on column legs joined by stretchers, three stamped 'J.Wright' (4)

By repute, supplied to Maharaja Duleep Singh, Elveden Hall, Suffolk

Specialist note

Maharaja Duleep Singh Sukerchakia (d. 1893) was the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He was exiled to London in 1854, having been dethroned by the British Raj in 1849. Duleep Singh was welcomed into the European court by Queen Victoria. He bought Elveden in 1863 and proceeded to transform the estate into a game reserve and the house into an oriental palace where he lived the life of a British aristocrat.