Armchair
With R.W. Partridge, London, by 1917 [1];
Purchased from his sale, Decorative Furniture, Objects of Art, and Porcelain from Various Sources and Old English Furniture, the Property of a Lady, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, February 5, 1917, lot 112, by M. Harris for William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), United Kingdom, inventory numbers X 1830 and X 1831, 1917-1925 [2];
Purchased at his posthumous sale, The Art Collections of the late Viscount Leverhulme, Part I, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 9–13, 1926, lots 466–467, by Symons, Inc. [3];
Judge Irwin Untermyer (1886-1973), New York, by November 1950 [4];
His gift, through French & Co., New York, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 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 Director, 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.).
