Details
Each with rectangular back and seat upholstered in gros and petit-point floral needlework on channelled legs carved with bead-and-reel motif with moulded stretchers and plain back legs, one stamped 'II' the other 'IV'
39 in. (99 cm.) high; 2312 in. (59.5 cm.) wide; 2512 in. (65 cm.) deep
Provenance
Raine, Countess of Dartmouth.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 April 1998, lot 61.
Literature
A. Coleridge, ‘Furniture in the collection of Viscount and Viscountess Lewisham’ Connoisseur, November 1962, p. 144, fig. 5. illustrated in the Library.
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Lot Essay

Previously in the celebrated collection of Raine Countess Spencer. An icon of London society, Lady Spencer was widely praised for her taste, she expressed her love of antiques eloquently in 1972 when, as Countess of Dartmouth, she opened the Northern Antiques Fair: ‘Every antique shop is to me a potential Aladdin’s cave. I love gazing at paintings, admiring rare bronzes or the patina of walnut and satinwood. ’

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