Thomas Moore
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Lot 42TP
A mid Victorian 'Geometric gothic' carved solid oak chair after an 1862 design by John Pollard Seddon (1827-1906) made by Doveston, Bird and Hull
17 November 2021, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £10,000
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A mid Victorian 'Geometric gothic' carved solid oak chair after an 1862 design by John Pollard Seddon (1827-1906)
made by Doveston, Bird and Hull
With moulded and chamfered frames, the leather upholstery embossed with rosette trelliswork, the splat comprising panels of various proportions, the central tablet flanked to each end by a quatrefoil above a cusped pointed arch, surmounted by a chevron-cut frieze, with conforming trefoil pierced outswept Y-form arms each carved with a leaf wrapped crocket terminal, above a channelled seat frame, terminating in tapering square section legs, stamped: 'DOVESTON, BIRD AND HULL MANUFACTURERS', 58cm wide x 53cm deep x 108cm high, (22 1/2in wide x 20 1/2in deep x 42 1/2in high)
With moulded and chamfered frames, the leather upholstery embossed with rosette trelliswork, the splat comprising panels of various proportions, the central tablet flanked to each end by a quatrefoil above a cusped pointed arch, surmounted by a chevron-cut frieze, with conforming trefoil pierced outswept Y-form arms each carved with a leaf wrapped crocket terminal, above a channelled seat frame, terminating in tapering square section legs, stamped: 'DOVESTON, BIRD AND HULL MANUFACTURERS', 58cm wide x 53cm deep x 108cm high, (22 1/2in wide x 20 1/2in deep x 42 1/2in high)
Footnotes
Provenance
The present lot was purchased by the current owner and vendor on 5 May 2012 from The Fine Art Society, New Bond Street. A copy of this invoice, numbered 32375, is available to view online.
A closely comparable version of this J. P. Seddon chair was exhibited in the Medieval Court of the London International Exhibition in 1862. Whilst the design itself is in the reserve collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and appears illustrated in J. Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, 1987, fig. 220, p. 104. The original chair itself also appears in the foreground of a stereoscopic slide showing the Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. stand at the 1862 International Exhibition, which likewise features in J. Cooper, Ibid, fig. 221, p. 104.
A related ebony armchair, also dated circa 1862 and designed by John Pollard Seddon, sold Christie's, London, 7 November 2002, 20th Century Decorative Arts including late 19th Century Design, lot 10. Added to this, an almost identical example to this Christie's model is illustrated in J. Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, 1987, fig. 227, p. 105.
Further Literature
Official Catalogue of the International Exhibition, 1862, London, p. 34, Class XXX, No. 5815.
William Burges, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, CCXIII, October 1862.
M. Whiteway & C. Gere, Nineteenth Century Design, 1986 illus. p. 84.
