A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR

The oval padded back with lappeted frame, arms and serpentine seat covered in a pale green trellis-patterned silk, the outscrolled arms issuing from foliage with entrelac band, the reeded front-rail flanked by fanned panels, on stop-fluted and upturned stiff-leaf turned tapering legs with gadrooned feet, restoration to one arm-support, with printed label From the H. C. FOOT COLLECTION at 36 High St., Oxford, re-decorated, later blocks and restorations to seat-rails

Lot Essay

A pair of related medallion-backed cabriole chairs were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 14 April 1990, lot 59.
Harold Foot was an antique dealer who occupied 36 High Street, Oxford, from 1938 to 1940. In 1945 the premises were taken over by the carpet-dealer C. John. Mr Foot sometimes labelled items that he sold, including a card-table from the collection of the late Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, sold Christie's New York, 31 January 1981, lot 389, and another sold by the late Mrs M.B. Casey, in these Rooms, 14 November 1991, lot 136

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