A Pair of Regency Ebonized and Grisaille-Decorated Armchairs

Circa 1810

the crest-rails decorated with Classical figures, upholstered in modern fabric.

Height 33 x width 22 x depth 19 1/4 inches.

Property from the Estate of Helen Elliot Scott (1928-2024)

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance
Note:Born in Boston in 1928, Helen (Gay) Scott, nee Elliot, was a pianist, piano teacher, mother of three and grandmother of seven. She studied piano at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music, 1969-1973, while living in London where her husband was special assistant to Walter Annenberg, the American ambassador to the Court of St. James. Married for 42 years to Robert Montgomery Scott (1929-2005), President and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1982-1996, Helen served on the board of the Curtis Institute of Music, taught piano at the Settlement Music School, and privately into her nineties. She was an alumna of the Shady Hill School, the Foxcroft School and Radcliffe College.