Lot 431
WALTER SCOTT INTEREST - A PAIR OF ROSEWOOD AND TURNED IVORY SIDE CHAIRS Y
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Scottish Silver & Applied Arts
Auction: 17 August 2016 from 12:00 BST
Description
each with unfinished partially upholstered panel backs with bobbin-turned uprights surmounted by turned ivory finials raised above stuffover seats on corresponding tapered bobbin-turned front legs terminating in ivory feet (2)
Dimensions
44cm wide, 92cm high, 43cm deep
Footnote
Note:
These chairs are provenanced to Abbotsford House, Melrose, by repute. They come with the original reciept dated April 8th 1939 when they were purchased for £6 and 6 shillings each from E.S. Shann, 2 Royal Parade, Harrogate. The receipt states "Formerly the property of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford". Also sold with the lot is 'The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott Bart' by George Napier, published James Maclehose & Sons 1897.