£688
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art | 588
Auction: 5 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
of sgabello form, the tall shaped backs above plank seats with circular recesses, on shaped supports with further circular recesses joined by stretchers
Note: Based on an Italian Renaissance prototype, the present model of 'back-stool' was particularly popular in the 18th century. While the basic design was known to exist by 1730, this version with rounded seats post-dates 1750. A set of twelve oak chairs of apparently identical profile was supplied by William Masters of Coventry Street, Piccadilly to the 2nd Duke of Atholl (d.1764) for Blair Castle, Perthshire in 1751 (A. Coleridge, 'William Masters and some early 18th Century Furniture at Blair Castle, Scotland', The Connoisseur, October 1963, p.79, fig.5), the same model was also supplied by Alexander Peter to Dumfries House in 1759.