HENREDON ORIENTAL INFLUENCE DINING ROOM SET HENREDON ORIENTAL INFLUENCE TEAKWOOD DINING ROOM SET:Table, two leaves, one arm chair and five side chairs with cane backs and seats. Table is 29" high, length 69", width 40". Leaves are 16" wide.
269. A French Dining Room Set, circa 1870
A French oak three piece matching set includes a dining table with six chairs and two sideboards. Chairs (39"T x 17"W x 18"D) have caned seats and back rest have mother of pearl inlay with dark wood decoration, legs have bronze embellishments and handle at top of back rest. Dining table (30"T x 39"W x 70-1/2"L with leaf) has one leaf (20"W), lower bracket stretcher and fluted tapering legs, also with bronze embellishments. The largest of the two buffets has a mirror back with shelf, two drawers with lower compartments and mother of pearl inlay work. The large sideboard is apprx 79"T x 51"W x 19-1/2"D and the smaller one is apprx 61"T x 49"W x 18-1/2"D. From the estate of Michael Hawkins, Sanctuary Antiques-Cleveland, Ohio. This item may be previewed at Sanctuary Antiques.
1,500/3,000 Sold: $690.00
PRESS BACK DINING ROOM CHAIRS, SIX (6)Set of six oak chairs with pressed backs, caned seats, and turned legs; originated in Kansas; each measures approximately 40-1/4" high, 18-3/4" wide, with a seat depth of 17-1/2" and seat height of 18"; in very good condition.
Very Fine Rare Set of Six Lyre Back Klismos Chairs: attributed to Duncan Phyfe, New York, circa 1815, each with scrolled back with figured mahogany tablet crest over a very finely carved lyre form splat, upholstered slip seats, ash secondary, on leaf carved saber front legs with carved and gilt hairy paw feet, appear to retain period slip seats, 32-1/2 in. (overall); 17-1/2 in. (seat height); 16 in. (seat width)Note: While made in New York, this remarkable set of chairs was made for the Middleton family of Charleston, South Carolina, and likely started life in the Nathaniel Russell House in that city. The chairs apparently descended in the Russell and Middleton families, ultimately becoming part of the furnishings of "Hey Bonnie Hall", theÿMiddleton family home in Bristol, Rhode Island, and the city where Nathaniel Russell was born. Nathaniel Russell's daughter, Alicia Hopton, married Arthur Middleton, whose son was Nathaniel Russell Middleton, who married Anna DeWolf, daughter of William DeWolf, builder of "Hey Bonnie Hall. " Two chairs apparently from this set are pictured in early photographs of "Hey Bonnie Hall. " It is interesting to note that the architecture of "Hey Bonnie Hall" is markedly similar to the Gordon-Banks house, a detail that William undoubtedly noted and enjoyed. For a discussion of these chairs and of Charlestonians' taste for New York furniture in the period, see McInnis and Leath, "Beautiful Specimens, Elegant Patterns: New York Furniture for the Charleston market, 1810-1840" (Chipstone, 1996) pp. 137-174. One from the Banks set is illustrated as figure 6, and McInnis and Leath note that the set "(Represents) the very best of Phyfe's work. "Duncan Phyfe's design for lyre back chairs of this type is documented in his pencil sketch done for the Bancker family, circa 1815. They were expensive in their day, with "stuffed" seats costing a bit more than caned seats at $23 per chair. This rare surviving set of six is distinguished from the other known published examples by its very finely detailed leaf and rosette carving on the lyre backs, quite distinct from the leaf carving typically found on Phyfe chairs of this period. Two other chairs with this distinctive carving, and probably from the same set, are in the collection of Winterthur Museum (see Montgomery, American Furniture, The Federal Periodÿ(New York, 1966). Examples from the Banks set are widely published, including in Wendy Cooper, In Praise of America, catalog no. 294, in Jonathan Fairbanks, American Furniture 1620 to the Presentÿ(New York 1981) p. 259, andÿin Katherine Gross Farnham, ?Living with Antiques: The Gordon-Banks House in the Georgia Piedmont, ? The MagazineÿAntiques, 102, no. 3 (September 1972): p. 444. ÿPeter Kenny illustrates two closely related lyre back chairs in Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York, plates 17 and 20. Other closely related examples include a set made forÿthe family of William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, one of which is illustrated in 19th century America, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, catalog 27. ÿ; Provenance: Some chairs with early jelly labels inscribed "bequest of Miss. N. Rosalie Creighton, Sept. 1931"; purchased from Israel Sack, New York, October 1971 for $24, 000 (original invoice accompanies lot). The Sack receipt records "These chairs were given to the Newport Historical Society in 1931 by Miss Elizabeth Creighton of Newport in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Coffin Creighton of Charleston, South Carolina. This set of chairs was acquired by us from the Newport Historical Society and are presumed to be part of the set which belonged to the Middleton family and is shown in the Middleton home in Bristol, Rhode Island - "Hey Bonnie Hall. " The pair of satinwood card tables shown in Mrs. Middleton's "Hey Bonnie Hall" dining room (photostat) and the pair of lyre chairs in "Hey Bonnie Hall" drawing room (photostat) were acquired by Israel Sack in the 1930's. "Hey Bonnie Hall" in Bristol Rhode Island was built by William DeWolf in 1808. DeWolf's daughter Anna DeWolf (1815-1908) married Nathaniel Russel Middleton (1810-1890) of Charleston, who is buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston. Middleton, plantation owner, state representative, and President of the College of Charleston had five children with Anna DeWolf. Middleton's first wife was Margaret Emma Izard, daughter of Henry Izard. Margaret died at the young age of 24, and Nathaniel subsequently married Anna DeWolf. ; The Estate of William N. Banks, Jr. , Newnan, Georgia Condition this set survives in a remarkably fine state of preservation, all chairs front feet formerly fitted with casters (now removed), scattered veneer cracks and checkingÿto crest tablets, some wear and minor chips at knees, and other scattered minor surface flaws; Chair II: possible restoration at one front foot (lamination lines differ from the other chairs); Chair III: possible restoration at one front foot side lamination; Chair IV: break and repair at one front foot with glue residue at bottom, evidence of pin repair from back; Chair VII: minor cracks to one side of lyre, crack and repair at one rear foot, lacking one small rosette at side of crest; Chair X: crack at base of one lyre, break and repair at one foot, minor crack at one side rail; Chair XI: two tenon repairs at side rails, break and repair at one front foot
Century Furniture French dining room group, including oval table with three 15" leaves with inlaid walnut burl tile top, eight chairs with upholstered seats and cane backs including two host chairs, with matching buffet with applied carvings, raised panel doors and walnut burl tile top, buffet measures 73" long, 19" deep, 33" tall
A bleached walnut dining room set, draw-leaf table with extra leaf, six cane-back chairs including pair of carvers, upholstered seats, one armchair canework poor
A set of six 19th century mahogany dining chairs
each with tablet top-rail on square supports above a caned back between quartered fan corner pieces, the drop-in seats formerly caned, on turned tapering legs headed by reeded capitals and roundels, maked in pencil 'Morel' verso (6)
Note: ''Morel''. The Ambrose Heal book on London cabinet makers has the various dates and names of Morel''s businesses.
The old upholstered drop in seats have satin birch frames, one (the pink one I think) is inscribed ''Lady Duckworth King, 16 Culford Mews'' [London].
Lady Duckworth-King, was Barbara Madelen Jean Scott-Makdougall (1894-1979) before her marriage to Sir George Duckworth King, 6th Baron or Baronet (1891-1952) in 1915. See ''Burke''s Landed Gentry of Great Britain- The Kingdom in Scotland'' 19th edition, 2001, Vol. 1, page 1197.
SCOTT MAKDOUGALL FAMILY- OLD/NEW GALA HOUSE (Galashiels) and MAKERSTOUN HOUSE, near Smailholm. In 1714 the house was rebuilt to designs by William Adam, father of Robert Adam, and was enlarged again in 1812 by Archibald Elliot, who turned the house into a Victorian mansion. Sadly Makerstoun was burnt down again in 1970, however the current family rebuilt Makerstoun to the original plans of William Adam, with work complete in 1973.
Her father was Hugh James Elibank Scott- Makdougall of the title ''Scott of Gala'' - (see Burke''s Landed Gentry of Scotland).
Old Gala House is still in Galashiels and is a museum/craft centre. The Scott family owned Old Gala House from around 1500 to 1877. In 1900 one of them (the father of Lady Duckworth King) took on the additional name of Makdougall as he succeed one of them ( the woman named in the next sentence) in 1890. The Makdougalls came from Makerstoun House. ''Burkes Landed Gentry of Scotland'' states that a John Makdougall H.E.I.C.S. (Honourable East India Company Service?), but his older brother had KCB and was in the navy) died in 1822 and his eldest daughter Maria Scott Makdougall ''Became of Makerstoun, Roxburgh'' , indicating that the two families- the Scotts and Makdougalls were connected since the time the chairs would have been made.
New Gala House was designed by David Bryce and was built around 1877. It was demolished in 1987.
The other house connected with the Makdougall family is Makerstoun House, near Kelso. This house is now owned by Lord Biddulph. The Makdougalls (later known as the Scott Makdougalls from 1890) were at Makerstoun until 1920 when the estate was sold. Makerstoun House is now owned by Lord Biddulph.
In the late 1940s-50s, after her husband''s death, Lady Duckworth-King sold some properties at Sotheby''s. On 1 July 1955, ''a small collection of regency furniture, belonging to Barbara, Lady Duckworth- King, included a set of four torcheres ( each 4ft. high) from designs by Thomas Hope, which went to Messrs. Blairman for L270, and Mr S. Patch gave L240 for a Kingwood writing table ( 46in.wide), with carved giltwood trestle support terminating in paw feet'' ( the Times Jul 2 1955 page 8), column f). Sales including furniture from Lady D-K were also at Sothebys on 27 June 1958, July 8 1958- 7 plates in catalogue ( both advertised in ''The Times'').
These chairs, with their satin birch framed drop in seats are likely to have come from Lady Duckworth- King''s (Scottish) side of the family.
These chairs were given to Lady Duckworth King''s nurse/companion Marguerite JOY, who died 1983 aged 87, who was one of her Trustees.
A chair with some similarities was in the Sotheby''s Great Tew Park sale 27-29 May 1987, lot 145
The chairs have design elments suggesting the influences Trotter, Gillows or George Bullock.
Cf : also, a set in the Christies sale at Parham Park, Pulborough, West Sussex, 13 & 14 May 1996 with similar ''Carlton House'' ''tassels'' to the top of the legs, which were catalogued as ''Scottish William IV''- See following email for these photographs.
ARCHIVE RESEARCH
The records for Makerstoun and Old and New Gala house(s) are in the same collection in the National Archives of Scotland at Registry House- the ''Scott of Gala'' papers ( GD 477) This collection includes the Makdougall of Makerstoun papers (GD402).There are several inventories of furniture from the early 19th century onwards:
GD477/208 ''Inventory of furniture in Gala House 14 Sept 1830''
Dining room- 14 chairs and 2 arm chairs
also mention of ''7 drawing room chairs''
GD 477/208 item 5 ''Inventory of Furniture in Gala House, Taken 4 & 11 Oct 1836''
New Lobby ''2 of the 14 old Dining Room Mahogany Chairs''
Red Room ''6 single mahog. chairs
1 arm Do Gray''
Dining Room ''2 armchairs
10 Small DO''
Dressing Room ''1 old Dining Room Mahogany Chair''
1 DO DO Common''
GD477/464 Letter Hugh Scott of Gala to Mrs Craig'' Item 11 May 1816 '' Mr Scott of Gala with furniture & to be at Gala on the 10th''
''I send out all my personal property- the first Detachment arrives with this note. Where it is to be put God knows- the furniture tables chairs &C may be put in the Dining Room- the coarser things into the Laundry- the wine- I''ll be hanged if I know. I shall be out on the 10th- I hope more rent is forthcoming Yours Scott'' [Scott returning from his house in Edinburgh?]
GD477/2 ''Inventory of furniture etc in Gala House June 1871''
page 30 Dining Room ''10 Mahogany chairs in hair cloth''
''2 Do arm Do 1 arm broken 1 loose, haircloth holed and stained''
GD477/250 ''Inventory of contents of Makerstoun house circa 1914''
only lists china silver and plate, glass, linen, etc.
GD477/228/1 ''Inventory of Gala House furniture & C for Mr Plummer [26 April]1811''
Parlour '' 16 Mahogany hair bottom chairs w/ bronze[?] nails
Twelve Hans Wegner Dining Room Chairs Teak, oak, cane Carl Hansen and Son, Denmark, Model no. 34120 Curved backrest with exposed joints, natural fiber seats with some variation in shade and some breaks, ht. 30 in.
Press Back Dining Room Chairs, Six (6) Set of six oak chairs with pressed backs, caned seats, and turned legs; originated in Kansas; each measures approximately 40-1/4" high, 18-3/4" wide, with a seat depth of 17-1/2" and seat height of 18"; in very good condition.
A green and cream painted dining room suite, comprising extending twin-pillar dining table, 315cm x 107cm, the border with star spandrels and lattice surround, a similarly decorated kneehole sideboard fitted a surround of five drawers 152.5cm, and ten dining chairs with cane seats and simulated bamboo uprights, all with loose seat cushions
(9) Piece Oak Dining Room SetWith table having molded overhang top turned legs with reeded decoration to include four leaves 11'' W x 44'' L each also to include four pressed back chairs with shield motif bentwood supports cane seats seven vertical turned slats each chair having nine stretchers the front three being turned circa 29.5'' H x 31'' W x 44'' L. Private collection Madison Heights MI.
6pc Dillingham Dining room set. Round Dining Table. Six Arm Chairs with Caned Backs. Chair dimensions 37.5 x 20.5 x 20. Label Includes: 2 - 18 inch leaves
Dimensions: H: 30 inches: W: 45.25 inches: D: 45.25 inches - Seat Height: 18 inches ---
Condition: One chair with tears to vinyl seat. Some small breaks to woven canes. Minor nicks and scratches to frames
MATCHED EIGHT PIECE OAK DINING ROOM SUITE, IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TASTE, comprising LOW DRESSER SIDEBOARD with three frieze drawers and baluster turned supports, tied by stretchers, the whole applied with split turned decoration, 31" high, 6' wide, A CIRCULAR WIND OUT DINING TABLE with heavy barley twist turned supports, later castors and one extra leaf, 29 1/4" high, 3'10 1/2" long, 5'9" long (when extended) AND SIX DINING CHAIRS with floral carved top rails, caned backs, drop in seats and block and bobbin turned legs (8) (complete with winding handle)
A FRENCH PROVINCIAL CARVED OAK AND WALNUT DINING ROOM SET A FRENCH PROVINCIAL CARVED OAK AND WALNUT DINING ROOM SET
The dining room set comprising an extending dining table, eight caned side chairs, a server with marble top, and a buffet a deux corps. Each chair having a carved and shaped crest rail over cane back and seat, ending in cabriole fore legs. 11 items total.
The table measuring H 29 x W 46 x D 41 inches
Vintage Drexel Dining Room Suite Consensus Collection with two piece china hutch table with two leaves and six cane back chairs with padded seats
A set of four Victorian walnut dining room chairs in the gothic style with cane panelled seats and backs and twin barley twist column supports together with a small footstool
Baker Furniture, six dining room chairs, Chinese style, 20th C., two arm and four side, bowed crest with singular serpentine slat back, oversized seat support with upholstered center, base with caned supports, stretcher bars, slides to feet, metal "Baker Furniture" oval tag verso, celadon colored upholstery, some toning and wear of fabric, expected surface wear to wood including scratches, 41" h. x 23" w. x 20" d.
Set of six Louis XV style carved and caned wood dining room chairs comprising two arms and fours sides 36 in. H. 24 in. W. Estimate $ 300-500 One side chair: seat in need of recaning; appropriate scratches wear sun bleaching.
TEN PIECE DINING ROOM SET. Maple and including a two piece hutch. 76 1/4" h. 54" w. A table. 30" h. 61" w. And eight cane seat chairs. 41" h. 18" seat h.
DINING ROOM SUITE - Drexel eight-piece formal dining suite consisting of two-part arch top display cabinet oval top inlaid dining table with two extension leaves and six chairs (four side and two armchairs) with upholstered seats and caned backs walnu