Live Auction 3786The Collection of Carroll Petrie & European Decorative Arts from the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, including the Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection
A SET OF FOUR DUTCH JAPANNED SIDE CHAIRS
Lot 1042

A SET OF FOUR DUTCH JAPANNED SIDE CHAIRS

SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed31 March 2016

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A SET OF FOUR DUTCH JAPANNED SIDE CHAIRS
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with cream and floral silk covered drop-in seats, struck 'II', 'XII', 'V' and 'VIII' to the underside of each stretcher respectively, slight differences in scale, possibly originally conceived without japanning

Property of the late Mrs. Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park; Christie's House Sale, 6-9 June 1983, lot 189 (as a set of six).

Specialist note

A very similar chair from the collection of Viscountess Wolseley is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Walnut, 1905, fig. 182.