Part of the suite in situ at St Giles’s House, Dorset, photographed by Country Life, 13 March, 1915. Courtesy of the Country Life Picture Archive
THE ST. GILES’S HOUSE SUITE, English, circa 1765
Height: 39 ¾ in; 101 cm
Height of seat: 17 ½ in; 44.5 cm
Width: 28 ¾ in; 73 cm
Depth: 31 ½ in; 80 cm
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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.
