- THE ST. GILES’S HOUSE SUITE
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English, circa 1765
The settees:
Height: 3 ft 3¼ in; 100 cm
Height of seat: 1 ft 5½ in; 44.5 cm
Width: 7 ft 1 in; 216 cm
Depth: 2 ft 9¼ in; 84.5 cm
The armchairs:
Height: 39¾ in; 101 cm
Height of seat: 17½ in; 44.5 cm
Width: 28¾ in; 73 cm
Depth: 31½ in; 80 cm -
Ref. 4434651
Price Range: £100,000.00 + -
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A pair of George III mahogany settees and a pair of George III mahogany library armchairs attributed to William Vile.
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Provenance
One settee and the armchairs
Supplied to Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury (1711-1771), for St. Giles’s House, Dorset, England;
By descent to Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, St. Giles’s House, Dorset, England;
Christie’s, ‘Highly Important English Furniture and Sculpture from St. Giles’s House, Dorset’, 26 June 1980, lot 92 (the armchairs) and lot 96 (the settee);
Lily and Edmond Safra, New York, USA;
Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., London, England;
Private collection, London, England.
The companion settee
Supplied to Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury, for St. Giles’s House, Dorset, England;
By descent to Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, St. Giles’s House, Dorset, England, until 1953;
Christie’s, ‘Important English and French Furniture’, 22 October 1953;
Emily Hesslein, New York, USA, until 1962;
Sotheby’s, 30 March 1962, lot 162;
Walter Waddingham Antiques Ltd., Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, until 1963;
Private collection, Illinois, USA, until 2002;
Private collection, London, England.
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