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Property from the Collection of the late Christopher Hogwood CBE (1941-2014) Christopher Hogwood had a distinguished 50 year career as an eminent conductor, musicologist and key-board player. He was Founder and Director of the Academy of Ancient Music for 33 years and produced more than 200 solo keyboard, chamber, orchestral, choral and operatic recordings for Decca and was guest conductor to a variety of International orchestras. At the University of Cambridge he was Emeritus Honorary Professor of Music, Visiting Professor at both the Royal Academy of Music and King's College London, Professor of Music at Gresham College and a Tutor at Harvard University.

AN ELIZABETHAN OAK ARMCHAIR

LATE 16TH CENTURY

Details

AN ELIZABETHAN OAK ARMCHAIR
LATE 16TH CENTURY
Dated and initialled WC 1575 to the shaped crest, above a twin-panel back with scroll arms and square-section under-arm posts extending through to the front legs
48 in. (122 cm.) high; 25 in. (64 cm.) wide (arms); 16 ¼ in. (41 cm.) deep

Provenance

The John Fardon Collection (in the 1970's)
The Robert Spencer Collection, Musicologist, singer and teacher at Royal College of Music (in the 1980's - 1990's)
Purchased by Christopher Hogwood in 1996 from Robert Spencer

Exhibited

' The Elizabethan Midlands ', an exhibition of 16th century items with a Midlands provenance and in Midland Collections, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 22 June - 30 September 1979

Special notice

All sold and unsold lots marked with a filled square in the catalogue that are not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the day of the sale, and all sold and unsold lots not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the fifth Friday following the sale, will be removed to the warehouse of ‘Cadogan Tate’. Please note that there will be no charge to purchasers who collect their lots within two weeks of this sale.

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Lot Essay

This chair is the earliest known dated chair in private ownership. Two earlier chairs, both dated 1574, are known, one in the V Museum, London, the other in Trinity Hall, Aberdeen. A further two chairs in Sizergh Castle are dated 1570 and 1571.

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