Mahogany side chair with three carved and pierced splats in the back.
Identifier
FPF169
Title
Mahogany side chair with three carved and pierced splats in the back.
Date
1770-1790
Description
Mahogany side chair with a cartouche-shape back and three carved and pierced splats and an upholstered seat.
Full Description
This mahogany side chair has a cartouche-shaped and channel-moulded back with a small anthemion carved in the centre of the crest rail and three carved and pierced splats, each with a central patera. A stuff-over seat with a serpentine front and curved sides is covered in leather and close nailed with dome-headed gilt nails. There is a carved panel of anthemion where the part-fluted, part-reeded baluster-turned front legs meet the seat rail. The back legs are turned and raked. The upholstery is replaced.
A very similar chair, attributed to Hepplewhite, is illustrated in MacQuoid (reprinted 1989). The Frederick Parker Collection included a matching armchair which was sold through Christie’s, London in 1998; the armchair was acquired for the Collection in 1920 for £8.15s.
A very similar chair, attributed to Hepplewhite, is illustrated in MacQuoid (reprinted 1989). The Frederick Parker Collection included a matching armchair which was sold through Christie’s, London in 1998; the armchair was acquired for the Collection in 1920 for £8.15s.
Condition
Poor surface finish, worn and faded.
Repairs to the crest rail and lower back rail, central splat ‘backed’.
Front legs hipped into seat rail.
Back legs possibly replaced.
Late 19th century stuffing, webbing and base cloth.
Repairs to the crest rail and lower back rail, central splat ‘backed’.
Front legs hipped into seat rail.
Back legs possibly replaced.
Late 19th century stuffing, webbing and base cloth.
Materials
Mahogany.
Upholstery.
Upholstery.
Physical Dimensions
H. 89
W. 56
D. 61
W. 56
D. 61
Parker Numbers
Plastic label on rear seat rail: ‘Pattern’ with almost illegible inscription: ‘OM 2049’.
Painted inside seat rail: ‘169/2049
Painted inside seat rail: ‘169/2049
Provenance
In the Collection prior to 1993.
Notes
Christie’s, London, 24 September 1998, lot 303.
Percy MacQuoid, A History of English Furniture, London, reprinted 1989, p. 380, fig. 856.
The chair-back pattern features on an armchair in the C. D. Rotch Collection, illustrated in R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, p. 157, fig. 156.
See also:
R. W. Symonds, Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, London, 1955, p. 100, pl. 18.
H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, vol. III, London, 1909-11, p. 211, fig. 247, and p. 212.
H. Cescinsky, English Furniture From Gothic to Sheraton, Grand Rapids, 1929, p. 365, top left.
Percy MacQuoid, A History of English Furniture, London, reprinted 1989, p. 380, fig. 856.
The chair-back pattern features on an armchair in the C. D. Rotch Collection, illustrated in R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, p. 157, fig. 156.
See also:
R. W. Symonds, Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, London, 1955, p. 100, pl. 18.
H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, vol. III, London, 1909-11, p. 211, fig. 247, and p. 212.
H. Cescinsky, English Furniture From Gothic to Sheraton, Grand Rapids, 1929, p. 365, top left.
