A GEORGE II WALNUT AND MARQUETRY SHEPHERD'S CROOK ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1735

Details

A GEORGE II WALNUT AND MARQUETRY SHEPHERD'S CROOK ARMCHAIR
Circa 1735
The yoke-form back centered by a stylized shell carved with scales over a solid shaped splat inlaid with flower-filled vase and foliate scrolls flanked by scrolled stiles over an incurving padded drop-in seat covered in floral needlework over a waved seatrail centered by a scale-carved shell on anthemia-headed cabriole legs carved with acanthus, with scrolled brackets and foliate-carved feet

Provenance

Literature

S. Yates, An Encyclopedia of Chairs, 1988, p. 38, fig. 46.

Lot Essay

This chair forms part of a larger suite comprising at least six chairs. One of these chairs is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and four others formerly in the collection of Mrs. David Gubbay are at Clandon Park, Surrey (illustrated in situ at Clandon in J.Cornforth, The Inspiration of the Past, London, 1985, pl.191 and color pl.XXXVII).

A similar suite, almost certainly from the same workshop, includes an armchair from the collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. Melvyn Rollason, sold Christie's London, 3 July 1997, lot 160 and a pair of side chairs illustrated in L.Synge, Great English Furniture, London, 1991, p.46.