LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ST-GILES'S CHAIR MODEL

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY ARMCHAIRS
LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ST-GILES'S CHAIR MODEL
Each with rectangular padded back, arms and seat, the arm supports decorated with flowerheads and trailing foliage, on square column legs decorated with sunk panels on dotted trellis background, on guttae feet, with pierced brackets, covered in yellow and green striped-material with red velvet square motifs (2)

Provenance

With Erik Karlsen, 2001.

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Lot Essay

This pattern of armchair is derived from the celebrated model originally supplied to Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury (1710-1771) for St. Giles's House, Dorset. This long suite of armchairs and sofas is now dispersed and a list of sales was published in the catalogue entry for a pair sold by the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, Christie's, London, 8 July 1999, lot 30. Whilst no secure attribution can be made for the St Giles's suite, cabinet-makers William Vile (d. 1767) and William Hallett Senior (d. 1781), are linked to several payments recorded in the St. Giles's Household Account Book of 1745-52. The 10th Earl of Shaftesbury sold a large collection of highly important furniture and sculpture from St Giles's at Christie's, London, 26 June 1980.

See also lots 334-335 in this sale: two pairs of oak stools from St. Giles's House.

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