(5) William & Mary Walnut Upholstered Side Chairs, Met Exhibited

Lot description

(lot of 5) English William and Mary period walnut side chairs, late 17th c., each with high back and padded seat, on scrolled stretcher-joined legs, stamped "F," accompanied by 18th century tapestry fragments, (four) fronts and backs and (four) seat covers, previously fitted as seat covers, depicting figural pastoral villages and religious or allegorical scenes, including Christ and Mary elevated in heavenly clouds and a chariot scene, upholstery with loss and continued degradation, chairs some loss and restoration, one chair retaining only front and rear stretchers, stretchers detached but present with much old woodworm damage, approx 51"h, 19.5"w, 16.25"d, seat height: approx 17"h Provenance: Treasures from the vaults of a Dallas designer; Christie's, New York, 22 October, 2024, sale 23085, lot 140; Christie's, New York, 27 October 2015, "American Collecting in the English Tradition: Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art," sale 3780, lot 205; Gift of attorney Irwin Untermeyer (American, 1886-1973); exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "English Domestic Needlework of the VI, VII and VIII Centuries," 5 November- 3 December, 1945 NOTE: PHOTOS IN 1ST IMAGE ARE ENLARGED