Gothic Revival set of 6 oak dining chairs with carved detail

Green velvet re-upholstered seats and chair backs

Circa 1850

Designed by A W N Pugin

SOLD

Provenance

Leighton Hall was built for John Naylor, a wealthy banker and art collector between 1850-1852 and has similar design features to Abney Hall in Cheshire. John Gregory Crace was responsible for the interior decorating commissions to both houses utilising the designs of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.

The bill from Crace details that In the dining room there were 18 chairs with oak frames and Russian leather upholstered seats, finished with gimp and brass nails and a monogram stamped on the backs.  The original invoice was for £99 - £5 10s each. These were similar to the chairs designed by Pugin for the Palaces of Westminster around 1850. 

The photograph is of Abney Hall dining room (courtesy of the V&A Mostyn Crace Collection, department of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion)

The table and chairs were purchased at the Harrods sale in 1931 held on the premises 

Reputedly purchased by a lady at a Welsh auction in 1967 and recently acquired by Patch Rogers from her grandson 

Reference: 

Crace, Pugin and the furnishing of John Nayor’s Leighton Hall by Megan Aldrich and Barry Shifman Volume 41, 2005 p117-187 published by The Furniture History Society