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A similar library stool from Christ Church, Oxford, illustrated in The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale
A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY STOOLS ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, English, circa 1765
Height: 18¼ in; 46.5 cm
Width: 20 in; 51 cm
Depth: 13 in; 33 cm
Width: 20 in; 51 cm
Depth: 13 in; 33 cm
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£100,000 +
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The design of this pair of stools can be found in various forms, mostly within the Oxford area, and it is probably a local pattern. Thomas Chippendale supplied a set...
The design of this pair of stools can be found in various forms, mostly within the Oxford area, and it is probably a local pattern. Thomas Chippendale supplied a set of twelve stools of this pattern for the college library at Christ Church, Oxford. Similar stools, some painted and some made in mahogany, can also be found at Petworth House, Sussex, Coleshill House, Berkshire, and Longford Castle, Wiltshire.
Provenance
Stair & Company, New York, USA;
Private collection, USA.
Literature
Margaret Jourdain and F. Rose, English Furniture, the Georgian Period 1750-1830, 1953, p. 71, fig. 29.
Christopher Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, vol. I, pp. 164-5; vol II, p. 213.
Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, p. 56.
