A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1780

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1780
Each with pierced foliate-carved heart-shaped back above variant upholstery, on straight legs

Provenance

Fletcher Fund, 1929.

Literature

P. Remington, 'Late Eighteenth Century English Furniture: Recent Accessions', Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, November 1929, p. 299.

Lot Essay

This elegant chair-back pattern, with looped ribbons in Roman pelta-shield form, relates to a design in the manner of James Wyatt (d. 1813) in the 1788 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, no. 272). A set of fourteen chairs from a collection formed under the guidance of R.W. Symonds was sold Christie’s, London, 24 November 2005, lot 91 (£114,000).

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