Lot 241
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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III PARCEL-GILT AND CREAM-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 234 AND 236-241)
A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III PARCEL-GILT AND CREAM-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS

IN THE MANNER OF JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1780

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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III PARCEL-GILT AND CREAM-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS
IN THE MANNER OF JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1780
Each with a channelled padded oval back, arms and serpentine seat covered in cream velvet above a fluted seat, on square tapering fluted legs headed by paterae, on block feet, one chair with beaded detail to back, traces of earlier light green paint, three chairs with tipped feet
38 in. (97 cm.) high; 24½ in. (62 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep (8)

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Lot Essay

The Linnell firm was established by William Linnell (d.1763) in the 1730s, and was taken over by his son, John Linnell (d.1796), after his death in 1763. Like many other firms in the latter half of the 18th century, John Linnell drew influences from French design and architecture, while at the same time he employing émigré craftsmen, working in the fashionable French taste. Characteristic of Linnell's later work, this set of chairs epitomizes the popular neoclassical aesthetic of the 1780s.

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