Lot 343
GEORGE WALTON (ATTRIBUTED TO)
SET OF TEN MAHOGANY LADDER-BACK CHAIRS, CIRCA 1900
Auction: 10 November 2010 at 11:00 GMT
£5,750
Description
including TWO CARVERS, the serpentine ladder backs with turned upright and spirally reeded finials above leather upholstered seats with close nailed decorations raised on turned front legs with pad feet linked by turned stretchers (10)
Footnote
Literature: Cooper, Jeremy, 'Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors', pub. Thames & Hudson 1987, plate 618
Note: In 1896 Miss Cranston commissioned Walton to refurbish her Buchanan Street Tea Rooms whilst Charles Rennie Mackintosh was employed to decorate the walls of the Ladies Tea Room. Chairs similar to the present lot can be seen in contemporary photographs of the tea room.