Lot Essay
A pair of armchairs of this model were sold anonymously (The Property of a Lady of Title), at Sotheby's London, 28 October 1972
These light-framed armchairs, designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner with 'medallion' backs embellished with rose posies, relate to a set of chairs at Syon House (R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 1954, p.290, fig.203). Such 'cabriole chair' patterns were popularised by A. Hepplewhite & Co's, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pls. 11 & 11, and the cabinet-maker John Linnell of Berkeley Square supplied related chairs with cane seats for Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire in the late 1780s. However the type had already been fashionable for a decade. (H. Hayward, W & J Linnell, London, 1980, fig.96.
These light-framed armchairs, designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner with 'medallion' backs embellished with rose posies, relate to a set of chairs at Syon House (R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 1954, p.290, fig.203). Such 'cabriole chair' patterns were popularised by A. Hepplewhite & Co's, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pls. 11 & 11, and the cabinet-maker John Linnell of Berkeley Square supplied related chairs with cane seats for Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire in the late 1780s. However the type had already been fashionable for a decade. (H. Hayward, W & J Linnell, London, 1980, fig.96.