Lot 539: A RUSSIAN GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR,

Circa 1910, adorned with wing-form arms and upholstered in green velvet PROVENANCE With Didier Aaron, Inc., New York. NOTES This chair most certainly belongs to a set of gilt-beechwood armchairs commissioned by Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939) for his house in Kent, Port Lympne. Architect, Sir Herbert Baker (1862-1946), was hired to re-build Port Lympne in around 1910. At this time two sets of wing-form armchairs were acquired; six for the dining room with a bowed front rail and paw feet (illustrated in a photograph taken in 1910, see Works of Art from HOUGHTON, Christie's London, 8 December 1994, pg xvii.); and a further six, from which this chair most likely originates, with a plain front and plain front legs for the library.