A SET OF SIXTEEN GEORGE II WALNUT DINING CHAIRS INCLUDING FI | Ronald Phillips | Fine Antique English Furniture

A suite of seat furniture including library armchairs and side chairs with virtually identical carved decoration to the legs can be found at Longford Castle, Wiltshire.

Literature: Herbert Cescinsky, ‘The collection of the Hon. Sir John Ward KCVO’, Connoisseur, March 1921, p. 145.
H. Avray Tipping, English Homes, Period IV, vol. I, ‘Late Stuart, 1649-1714’, second impression, 1929, pp. 303-12.

Provenance

The armchairs, nine side chairs and chairs of later date
The collection of Whitney Miller, New York, USA;
Tom Devenish & Co., New York, USA;
Private collection, USA.
Two side chairs
The collection of David Rockefeller, New York, USA.

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