Lot 11
11
A GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIR
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 2… Read more PROPERTY OF THE LATE BARONESS MARIE-LOUISE VON CALLENBERG (1901-1982), SWITZERLAND (LOTS 11 - 18)
A GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIR

ATTRIBUTED TO GILES GRENDEY, CIRCA 1725 - 35

Details
A GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO GILES GRENDEY, CIRCA 1725 - 35
The shaped toprail above a pierced back with solid splat, shepherd's crook arms and padded drop-in seat on shell-headed cabriole legs with pad feet, stamped to the reverse 'HE', two back feet repaired
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 23½ in. (60 cm.) wide; 22½ in. (57 cm.) deep
Provenance
With E.T. Biggs & Sons, Maidenhead.
Mrs Scott McComb, Lily Hill, Bracknell, Berkshire.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The chair shows similarities in the idiosyncratic form of the splat with the set commissioned between 1725 - 36 by Nicholas, 4th Earl of Scarsdale for Sutton Scarsdale, and tentatively attributed to Thomas How, upholsterer of Westminster (Adam Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture 1715 - 40, Woodbridge, 2009, p. 177, pl. 4.66). Related chairs bear the trade label of Giles Grendey, of St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, including a pair sold Sotheby's, New York, 20/2 November 1981, lot 233, and the attribution to Grendey is strengthened by the presence on the seat rail of the journeyman's stamped initials, a common practice in Grendey's workshop.

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