Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of Europe: July 2009–June 2011
Pair of heart-back armchairs
about 1785
Possibly by Gillow and Company
H: 96.5 cm (38 in.); W: 58.4 cm (23 in.)
Mahogany, modern upholstery
Classification: Furniture
Culture: English (Lancaster)
Accession number: 2010.1035.1-2
Description: The shield back carved to the top with a wheat sheaf motif above a pierced palmette, with carved trailing foliage and a patera to the sides, tapering into carved foliage, a patera and fan motif, with moulded downswept scroll-carved arms and a bowed caned seat, on moulded square tapering legs, surmounted by carved paterae and terminating in spade feet.
Provenance/Ownership History: 1960s, Mallet Antiques, London. Peter Lipitch LTD., London. Acquired on the London art market by Horace Wood Brock, New York; 2010, gift of Horace Wood Brock to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011).
Gift of Horace Wood Brock