CIRCA 1790- 1800, AFTER A DESIGN BY HEPPLEWHITE

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III PAINTED SATINWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1790- 1800, AFTER A DESIGN BY HEPPLEWHITE
Each with a rectangular back with vertical splat carved with the Prince of Wales' feathers, the caned seats with blue silk squab cushion, on square tapering legs with painted reserves and collared toes
36 in. (91 cm.) high; 21 ½ in. (55 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

Provenance

With Frank Partridge & Sons, Ltd., London, 1939.
Sir Henry Price, Wakehurst Place, West Sussex, sold Sotheby's, London, 22 November 2000, lot 185.

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Lot Essay

With their vase-carved splats surmounted by Prince of Wales plumes and painted oval panels to the seatrail, the present armchairs relate to a 1790 design by Gillows of Lancaster, a variant of their `canopy top rail' chairs which were generally carved with drapery swags, and more explicitly to a design published by Hepplewhite and Co. in The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 3rd ed., 1794, pl. 1.

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