A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III MAHOGANY COCKPEN ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1765

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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III MAHOGANY COCKPEN ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1765
Each with an arched crestrail above a pierced fret-carved back over a caned drop-in seat above a solid seatrail on square legs with pierced, curved brackets, each with inventory label and numbers Seagrams Furniture and Fixtures F. 010, replacements to brackets (4)

Provenance

The Corporate Collection of Seagrams (according to the labels).

Lot Essay

These chairs are notable examples of a highly fashionable pattern in the George II 'Chinese' manner. Their fretted-trellis backs derive from the type of patterns published in W. Halfpenny's Twenty New Designs of Chinese Lattice (1750). The octagonal form of the central tablet is featured on a Chinese chair pattern in Chippendale's Director, 1754, pl. XXVII. In addition, these chairs are closely related to the well-known set of chairs commissioned by the 4th Duke of Beaufort for Badminton House, Gloucester and still at the house (see P. Macquoid, The Age of Mahogany, 1906, p.258, pl.245).

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