ONE GEORGE III, CIRCA 1760, THE OTHER OF A LATER DATE

The chair conforms to the French fashion promoted by London's foremost cabinet-makers from the 1760s. The spectacular giltwood suite supplied by Thomas Chippendale for Lord Dundas at 19 Arlington Street in 1766 is the most elaborate version with similar deeply rendered seatrail centered by a shell and with confronting C-scrolls that head the scroll-footed legs (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 105, fig. 177). John Linnell executed a related design of circa 1765-1770 (H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, New York, 1980, vol. II, p. 33, fig. 60).

A pair of giltwood chairs of closely related form was sold by a nobleman, Christie's, London, 23 June 1983, lot 29.