Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of Europe: July 2009–June 2011
One of a pair of chairs
about 1805
Height x width: 35 x 24 in. (88.9 x 61 cm)
Gilded beech, brass castors, modern upholstery
Classification: Furniture
Culture: English
Accession number: 2010.1041.1-2
Location: Susan Morse Hilles Gallery (Regency)
Description: Each with a padded scrolled back, the curved toprail between moulded downswept arms with scroll and paterae terminals, on reeded tapering legs headed by paterae with gadrooned feet, with gadrooned brass caps and castors, stamped 'W', one chair with 'II' inscribed in pencil on the backrail, re-upholstered.
Provenance/Ownership History: About 1805, possibly part of the suite supplied to Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (d. 1820) for Harewood House, Hanover Square, London; until 1951, by descent within the family; June 28, 1951, H.R.H. The Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood sale, Christie's London, lot 46 (the whole suite). June 4, 2009, anonymous sale, Christie's, London, lot 104, to H. Blairman & Sons 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, 2010).
Gift of Horace Wood Brock