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Details
AN OAK THREE LEGGED STOOL, ENGLISH, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
with a triangular moulded top and scroll carved friezes, each branded HD, on block and ring turned baluster legs joined square section stretchers
each side 16½in. (42cm.) wide, 21½in. (54cm.) high
with a triangular moulded top and scroll carved friezes, each branded HD, on block and ring turned baluster legs joined square section stretchers
each side 16½in. (42cm.) wide, 21½in. (54cm.) high
Provenance
The Fred Skull Collection,sold at Christie's, April 23 and 24 1952, lot 186. The sale was entitled 'A Private Collection of Porcelain and Objects of Art, Fine English Furniture of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Needlework and Textiles formed by the late Fred Skull, Esq, removed from Bassetsbury Manor, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire'. The buyer recorded in the auctioneer's book is'Wolsey',who is most likely Sam Wolsey, the prominent London dealer. An Important Private Collection of Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Century Furniture, sold Sotheby's, 28 May 1982, Lot 20
Literature
Ralph Edwards,The Dictionary of English Furniture, Vol 3, 1954 Edition, p170, fig 17, from the Fred Skull Collection
RW Symonds,Furniture Making in seventeenth and eighteenth Century England, London, 1955, fig 102 A very similiar stool is illustrated in Victor Chinnery,Oak Furniture, The British Tradition,Woodbridge, 1979, p268, fig 3.104, which formed part of the John Fardon Collection and which was sold at Christie's South Kensington 16 March 1994, lot 81.
RW Symonds,Furniture Making in seventeenth and eighteenth Century England, London, 1955, fig 102 A very similiar stool is illustrated in Victor Chinnery,Oak Furniture, The British Tradition,Woodbridge, 1979, p268, fig 3.104, which formed part of the John Fardon Collection and which was sold at Christie's South Kensington 16 March 1994, lot 81.
Exhibited
A Seat of Authority - The Art of the Chairmaker at the British Antique Dealers Association Fair of 1997
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.