Live Auction 21922Three Private Collections: Belgravia, Berkshire and Guernsey
A SET OF TEN SCOTTISH MAHOGANY LADDERBACK CHAIRS
Lot 273

A SET OF TEN SCOTTISH MAHOGANY LADDERBACK CHAIRS

ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE WALTON (1867-1933), CIRCA 1900

Closed25 May 2023

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A SET OF TEN SCOTTISH MAHOGANY LADDERBACK CHAIRS
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE WALTON (1867-1933), CIRCA 1900
Including a pair of armchairs, all with turned uprights and spirally reeded finials above close-nailed leather upholstered seats on turned front legs with pad feet joined by a turned stretcher
The armchairs: 42 1/2 in. (108 cm.) high; 23 1/4 in. (59 cm.) wide; 19 1/2 in. (50 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 10 November 2010, lot 343.

Specialist note


In 1896 Miss Cranston (1849-1934) commissioned George Walton to refurbish her Buchanan Street tea rooms in Glasgow, whilst Charles Rennie Mackintosh was employed to decorate the walls of the ladies tea room. Chairs similar to these can be seen in contemporary photographs of the tea room.