TWO GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS

FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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TWO GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The smaller example covered in glazed yellow-ground floral chintz, the larger French example covered in coffee and white chintz, both re-gilt
The smaller: 36 in. (91.5 cm.) high
The larger: 38 in. (96 cm.) high

Provenance

The smaller fauteuil probably commissioned by Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854) as part of drawing room suite, listed as including eighteen such chairs, for Wynyard Park, County Durham.

Literature

The smaller fauteuil: possibly, Wynyard Park inventory, 1886, vol. ii, p. 307, the drawing room ‘a set of 18 open armchairs en suite’ (part).
The small fauteuil: possibly, A. Hicks, David Hicks – A Life of Design, New York 2009, p. 104, illustrated in situ in the drawing room of Alexander Charles Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry (1937-2012), at his Hampstead Home circa 1965.

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Lot Essay

The small fauteuil was probably commissioned from Bertram & Son, Dean Street, Soho, as indicated by Royal Aero Club, Londonderry House inventory, 1949, p. 31, where the set of identical design from Londonderry House is described.

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