A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT, FAUX-GRAINED, AND MARQUETRY-INLAID SETTEE POSSIBLY BY...
With three circular medallions inlaid with the interlaced monogram 'M.W.' and foliage sprays on a walnut ground, on four front legs of broken cabriole form hipped above the seat frame and inlaid on the ears with possibly heraldic marquetry hounds(?), the knees with upspringing foliage and flower sprays, the square tapering lower parts with pendant flowers and foliage in panels terminating in shaped hoof feet of square form; with later back legs of curved and cabriole form, with losses to veneers and replacements to ears; the back re-shaped
391⁄2 in. (100.3 cm.) high, 75 in. (190.5 cm.) wide, 321⁄2 in. (82.6 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Collection of Lt.-Col. A. Heywood-Lonsdale, Shavington Hall, Shropshire; Christie's, London, 6 June 1957, lot 109.
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The fashionable 'Vitruvian' legs on this settee also feature on contemporary chairs introduced at Blenheim, Oxfordshire, when Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough adopted as her 'Oracle' in taste, the court cabinet-maker James Moore (d. 1726), of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. Other examples include a pair of side chairs for Trevor House, later Powis House, Knightsbridge (sold Sotheby's, London, 9 November 2021, lot 14); and three illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, vol. I, London, 1986, pp. 256, 258 and 261, figs. 91-92, 98 and 107.
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With three circular medallions inlaid with the interlaced monogram 'M.W.' and foliage sprays on a walnut ground, on four front legs of broken cabriole form hipped above the seat frame and inlaid on the ears with possibly heraldic marquetry hounds(?), the knees with upspringing foliage and flower sprays, the square tapering lower parts with pendant flowers and foliage in panels terminating in shaped hoof feet of square form; with later back legs of curved and cabriole form, with losses to veneers and replacements to ears; the back re-shaped
391⁄2 in. (100.3 cm.) high, 75 in. (190.5 cm.) wide, 321⁄2 in. (82.6 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Collection of Lt.-Col. A. Heywood-Lonsdale, Shavington Hall, Shropshire; Christie's, London, 6 June 1957, lot 109.
Lot Essay
The fashionable 'Vitruvian' legs on this settee also feature on contemporary chairs introduced at Blenheim, Oxfordshire, when Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough adopted as her 'Oracle' in taste, the court cabinet-maker James Moore (d. 1726), of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. Other examples include a pair of side chairs for Trevor House, later Powis House, Knightsbridge (sold Sotheby's, London, 9 November 2021, lot 14); and three illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, vol. I, London, 1986, pp. 256, 258 and 261, figs. 91-92, 98 and 107.
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