GEORGE III MAHOGHANY AND LEATHER UPHOLSTERED PORTER'S CHAIR
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Auction: Session One - Wednesday 19th February at 10am
Description
the domed canopy in later upholstered close-nailed buttoned oxblood leather, a pair of cupboard doors to the base, on brass castors; with a framed handwritten note ‘This Chair was done for Ld Dillon [?] Nov.r 12th 1801 by Wm. Russell at Mess.rs Elward, Marsh & Tatham, Mount St. Grosvenor Square/ London’
Dimensions
82cm wide, 160cm high, 80cm deep, seat depth 61cm
Footnote
The Mount Street partnership began at Elward's premises at no. 14 which were given in trade directories as the firm's address from 1790, changing to 13 Mount Street, Grosvenor Square in insurance records when a dwelling house with warehouse in the yard behind and the contents were insured for a total of £5,800. This address remained the same for the firm through all subsequent changes of partnership up to 1840.
Elward & Marsh were joined by Edward Bailey in 1793 and by Thomas Tatham in 1798. The firm was then known as Elward, Marsh & Tatham until 1803 when Elward is no longer listed in trade directories.