Armchair
With R.W. Partridge, London, by 1917; [1.]
Sold from his collection, “Decorative Furniture, Objects of Art, and Porcelain from Various Sources and Old English Furniture, the Property of a Lady,” Christie, Manson & woods, London, Monday February 5, 1917, lot 112;
Purchased from that sale by M. Harris for William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925); [2]
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), inventory numbers (X 1830, X 1831);
Sold, his posthumous sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, Part I, February 9–13 1926, lots 466–467; to Symons, Inc. [3.]
With Judge Irwin Untermyer, New York, by November 1950 [4.]
His donation, through French & Co., New York, to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, December 11, 1950 [5.]
NOTES:
[1.] R.W. [Robert W.] Partridge (1861–1932) was a collector and art dealer who operated in various locations in London and New York.
[2.] Lucy Wood, The Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008): II, 1034.
[3.] Ibid.; also, “ART PRICES SOARING IN LEVERHULME SALE; Some Pieces Sell for Double and Triple the Estimate of English Appraisers. AMERICANS GET THE MOST Prized Pieces in Furniture Section to Stay Here -- Sales of $101,735 Raise Total to $490,200.” The New York Times, February 13, 1926, p. 16.
[4.] Mitchell Samuels, French & Company, Inc., to Paul Gardner, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, November 22, 1950. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art archives.
[5.] Deed of gift, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art curatorial files, 50-58/1-2
Margaret Jourdain. "The Leverhulme Collection of Furniture-I." Country Life 58, no. 1498 (Saturday September 19, 1925): 451-452 (ill.)
The Art Collections of the Late Viscount Leverhulme [Part One] (New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1926): lots 466-467, pp. 212-213 (ill.)
“ART PRICES SOARING IN LEVERHULME SALE; Some Pieces Sell for Double and Triple the Estimate of English Appraisers. AMERICANS GET THE MOST Prized Pieces in Furniture Section to Stay Here -- Sales of $101,735 Raise Total to $490,200.” The New York Times, February 13, 1926, p. 16.
Ross E. Taggart, "The Impact of China on English and American Furniture Design," Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 2, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 56-65 (ill. p. 64, fig. 16).
Lucy Wood, The Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008): II, 1034 (ill.).
