Lot 134
134
The Property of LAND SECURITIES PLC
A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with cartouche-shaped padded back, arm-rests and serpentine seat covered in close-nailed green leather, with channelled scrolled arm-supports and bowed channelled apron centred by a cabochon, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus-carving and on scroll-feet with later pads, restorations, repair to one front leg, the seat-rails re-supported, later blocks (2)

Details
A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with cartouche-shaped padded back, arm-rests and serpentine seat covered in close-nailed green leather, with channelled scrolled arm-supports and bowed channelled apron centred by a cabochon, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus-carving and on scroll-feet with later pads, restorations, repair to one front leg, the seat-rails re-supported, later blocks (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 4 April 1959, lot 126

Lot Essay

Giltwood chairs of this distinguished model are visible in the Great Hall of Hewell Grange in the Country Life photographs of 1913 (see: J.Cornforth, The Search for a Style, London, 1988, p.107). The chairs are visible in Sir William Nicholson's evocative portrait of the Windsor-Clive family in the Great Hall at Hewell that is illustrated in M. Hall, 'Hewell Grange, Worcestershire', Country Life, 7 October 1993, p. 50

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