12th Jul, 2025 9:30 GMT/BST
A Charles II Joined Oak Box Settle, probably Yorkshire circa 1660, the back with five plain panels below four slender carved panels, the two central top panels carved with a small bearded mask and stylized foliage, the top rail carved with repeated paired palmette-flowers, with each stem forming a linear shaped border, with tight-scroll carved ears, with downswept arms and boarded seat hinged to the front and with chip-carved ends
209cm by 57cm by 112cm
Provenance: The John Nicholls Collection, Bonhams, The Oak Interior, lot 227, 28 March 2018
Sold for £950
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
Auction: The Summer Sale, 12th Jul, 2025
A Sèvres Porcelain Tea Service of Royal Provenance is one of the outstanding lots of Tennants Auctioneers’ Summer Fine Sale; this exquisitely painted service is dated 1820, and comprises a teapot and cover, a sucrier, a milk jug and five cups and saucers, all decorated with portraits of great composers including Gluck, Haydn and Mozart, painted by Jean Georget. Leading the furniture in the sale is a fine George III Carved Mahogany Tripod Table, attributed to Thomas Chippendale, and further outstanding highlights include an impressive George IV Gilt Bronze Ten-Branch Chandelier in Regencé Style and a Monumental Carved Marble Model of the Borghese Vase by Randolph John Rogers.
A particularly good selection of clocks include a Late 17th Century Kingwood Eight Day Table Timepiece made by Nathaniel Hodges circa 1685, a Walnut and Marquetry Month Going Longcase Clock made by Philip Corderoy in London in 1690, and a fine and rare 1000 Year Calendar and Moon Phase Atmos du Millenaire Atlantis Clock by Jaeger LeCoultre, made to celebrate the Millenium.
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