A PAIR OF GEORGE I WALNUT CHAIRS with slightly curved backs and solid baluster splats carved with foliage and rosettes, the crestings centred by shells framed by foliate scrolls on a punched ground, the bowed drop-in floral needlework seats with flowers in petit point on a reworked blue gros point ground on plain rails with shell centres and cabriole legs headed by shells and foliage, on claw-and-ball feet, numbered I and XII, inscribed in white paint 192, one chair with sections of veneer replaced top right of back and two sections on the seat-rail, the other with section of veneer replaced top left of back The seats 21¾in. (52.5cm.) wide; the backs 40¾in. (103.5cm.) high (2)

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE I WALNUT CHAIRS with slightly curved backs and solid baluster splats carved with foliage and rosettes, the crestings centred by shells framed by foliate scrolls on a punched ground, the bowed drop-in floral needlework seats with flowers in petit point on a reworked blue gros point ground on plain rails with shell centres and cabriole legs headed by shells and foliage, on claw-and-ball feet, numbered I and XII, inscribed in white paint 192, one chair with sections of veneer replaced top right of back and two sections on the seat-rail, the other with section of veneer replaced top left of back The seats 21¾in. (52.5cm.) wide; the backs 40¾in. (103.5cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Acquired by the mid-1950s

Lot Essay

A walnut chair of similar design from the Percival Griffiths Collection is illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., London, 1954, p.257, fig. 96

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