A GEORGE I WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIR

THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. MELVYN ROLLASON (Lots 151-185)

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A GEORGE I WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIR
The vase-shaped solid splat carved with acanthus between confronting C-scrolls terminating in flowerheads and acanthus, below a shaped and paper-scrolled cresting carved with a shell-motif, the out-curved arms on serpentine supports above a rounded rectangular seat with concave sides and padded drop-in seat covered in floral velvet, the seat-rail centred by a stylised shell-motif, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus and scrolled angle-brackets with claw feet, previously but not originally with castors

Literature

G.W. Whiteman (ed.), 'Ludstone Hall, Claverley, Shropshire', The Antique Collector, London, December 1965-January 1966, p. 239 (shown in situ in the Library) and 241.

Lot Essay

A very similar chair with marquetry-inlaid splat and scrolling foliate feet is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in H. Cesinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, London, vol. 1, p. 69, fig. 80.

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