LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SOFA
LATE 18TH CENTURY
With a reeded frame, the padded back, sides and arms covered in cream foliate silk damask, the arms on tapering supports, on ring-turned tapering legs, re-gilt
76½in. (194.5cm.) wide

Provenance

By repute, from Daylesford House.

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Lot Essay

This French-fashioned sofa, with Pompeian-pillared arms, relates to Lord Spencers Parisian 'canapé' supplied in 1791 by the London/Paris marchand mercier Dominique Daguerre, and for which the John Street chair-maker Francois Hervé (d.1796) supplied en suite 'cabriolet' chairs ( P. Thornton, The Spencer Furniture at Althorp, Apollo, October 1968 p.273, figs 13 and 12 ). This style of settee was popularised soon afterwards by Thomas Sheraton's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793.

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