Live Auction 10710Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY HALL SEAT
Lot 34

A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY HALL SEAT

LATE 19TH CENTURY, RETAILED BY HENRY SAMUEL

Closed24 November 2015

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A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY HALL SEAT
LATE 19TH CENTURY, RETAILED BY HENRY SAMUEL
The back with slightly raised circular panels and rosettes to the corners, scroll arms and bell-flower carved seat edge with arcaded frieze and tapering swag-hung legs, stamped H.SAMUEL 484 OXFORD ST. LONDON twice and H.SAMUEL on the under-seat cross-strut
40 in. (102 cm.) high; 44 in. (112 cm.) wide; 19 in. (49 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Henry Samuel, the Oxford Street dealer (fl.1881 - 1913) regularly name-stamped his stock and seems to have specialised in high quality copies of 18th century furniture.
A related example was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 27 November 2007, Lot 54 and another larger example at Bonhams, 15 June 2011, Lot 62