A SET OF FOUR GEORGE IV PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED DINING-CHAIRS

ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE SEDDON, CIRCA 1825

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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE IV PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED DINING-CHAIRS
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE SEDDON, CIRCA 1825
Each scrolled padded back and seat covered in floral silk damask, on turned tapering reeded legs and turned feet, re-decorated, one stamped CM
35 in. (89 cm.) high; 18¼ in. (46.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep (4)

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to John Thellusson, 2nd Baron Rendlesham (d. 1832), for Brodsworth, Yorkshire.
Sold circa 1870 by his son Charles Sabine Thellusson to 1st Baron Brabourne.
Lord Brabourne purchased furniture that Thellusson did not want for the new Italianate villa with which he replaced his father's Regency house in the 1860s.
Thence by descent to the Knatchbull family, Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent; sold Christie's London, 6 April 1995, lot 226 (part of a set of twelve).

Literature

P. Thornton, 'The Furnishings of Mersham-le-Hatch', I and II, Apollo, June 1970, pp. 266-277 and pp. 440-451.

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Lot Essay

The reed-capped columnar leg and reeded seat-rail can be found in George Smith's celebrated Cabinet-Maker and Upholster's Guide, 1826. A related suite of George IV ormolu-mounted rosewood furniture at Brodsworth Hall, Yorkshire, designed in the French-Grecian manner and bears the label of George I Seddon (d. 1864) and his brother George II Seddon (d. 1857), whose enormous cabinet-making establishment in Aldersgate Street, London, helped furnish George IV's Windsor Castle.

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