CIRCA 1715
A GEORGE I WALNUT AND MARQUETRY WING ARMCHAIR CIRCA 1715 The arched padded back, scrolled sides, arms and squab cushion covered in floral needlework, the seatrail with central drop cartouche inlaid with the Bowes coat-of-arms, on hipped square legs and braganza feet, restorations to legs, the needlework apparently original and with restorations 48 ½ in. (123 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) deep Provenance Commissioned by Elizabeth, Lady Bowes ( née Blakeston of Gibside Manor), widow of Sir William Bowes (d. 1706) for Streatlam Castle, County Durham. By descent at Streatlam Castle with the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne and likely sold by the Countess of Strathmore in the 1920s. With Phillips of Hitchin (Antiques) Ltd., Hertfordshire, circa 1962. The Trustees of the S.T. Cook Will Trust; sold Sotheby’s, New York, 16 October 1993, lot 308. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 14-15 June 2016, lot 388.
CIRCA 1715
A GEORGE I WALNUT AND MARQUETRY WING ARMCHAIR CIRCA 1715 The arched padded back, scrolled sides, arms and squab cushion covered in floral needlework, the seatrail with central drop cartouche inlaid with the Bowes coat-of-arms, on hipped square legs and braganza feet, restorations to legs, the needlework apparently original and with restorations 48 ½ in. (123 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) deep Provenance Commissioned by Elizabeth, Lady Bowes ( née Blakeston of Gibside Manor), widow of Sir William Bowes (d. 1706) for Streatlam Castle, County Durham. By descent at Streatlam Castle with the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne and likely sold by the Countess of Strathmore in the 1920s. With Phillips of Hitchin (Antiques) Ltd., Hertfordshire, circa 1962. The Trustees of the S.T. Cook Will Trust; sold Sotheby’s, New York, 16 October 1993, lot 308. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 14-15 June 2016, lot 388.
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