A GEORGE I GILT-LACQUERED BRASS-MOUNTED WALNUT SHEPHERD'S CROOK ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1720

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A GEORGE I GILT-LACQUERED BRASS-MOUNTED WALNUT SHEPHERD'S CROOK ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1720
The shaped padded back and seat upholstered in red leather, on cabriole legs applied with scrolling shells, joined by an X-frame stretcher. The back framing probably replaced.

Provenance

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 53, fig. 76.

Sale room notice

Please note, the back framing probably replaced.

Lot Essay

The collector Percival Griffiths owned a pair of chairs of the same model differing only in that they lacked mounts and had veneered seat rails. These are illustrated in R. W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, fig. 30 and were part of the landmark Griffiths sale at Christie's, 10 May 1939, lot 179. They were later sold by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Christie's, London, 1 April 1976, lot 83.

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