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A chair from the Chandos Suite at Houghton Hall, Norfolk
A PAIR OF GEORGE I GESSO STOOLS, English, circa 1720
Height: 19 ½ in; 49.5 cm
Width: 27 ¼ in; 69 cm
Depth: 21 in; 53 cm
Width: 27 ¼ in; 69 cm
Depth: 21 in; 53 cm
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£100,000 +
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Note: Attributed to James Moore, these stools retain virtually all the original gilding. The design of the stools is nearly identical to the Chandos suite of seat furniture, some of...
Note: Attributed to James Moore, these stools retain virtually all the original gilding.
The design of the stools is nearly identical to the Chandos suite of seat furniture, some of which is at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England, and some at Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire, England.
Provenance
Private collection, New York, USA.Literature
Percy Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, vol. III, ‘The Age of Mahogany’, 1906, p. 35, fig. 31.
Francis Lenygon, The Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions in the 17th and 18th Centuries, 1909, p. 19.
Mallett & Son, catalogue, 2007, pp. 5-15.
Illustrated:
Ronald Phillips, Fine Antique English Furniture, London 2018, pp. 70-73.
