CIRCA 1760

Details

AN EARLY GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1760
The pierced latticework back and arms with pagoda cresting above a drop-in seat covered in red silk damask, on cluster-column legs, one front leg later
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 18 in. (45.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

George S. Palmer, New London, Connecticut.
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1918.

Literature

J. Breck, 'English Furniture in the Palmer Collection', Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, December 1918, p. 281, fig 8.
J. Breck, 'Early English Furniture in the Palmer Collection', Arts & Decoration, February 1919, pp. 211, 236.
P. Remington, 'The Galleries of European Decorative Arts and Period Rooms', Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, November 1954, p. 110.
A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, p. 193, fig. 192.
D.Z. Metlach, 'Thomas Chippendale Something for Everyone', The American Woodworker, March 1985, p. 15.

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Lot Essay

This chair is related to a set of variant examples in the Chinese manner expounded by Sir William Chambers in his Designs for Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils of 1757, derived from patterns published by Thomas Chippendale in The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd ed., London, 1762, pl. XXVII. They are very similar to the celebrated suite for Ingress Abbey, Kent, illustrated in R. Edwards & P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, vol. III, p. 84, fig. 33. Similar examples recently sold include a pair sold anonymously Christie's, New York, 21 October 1999, lot 177 ($46,000 including premium), and a pair of side chairs sold Christie’s, London, 21 May 2015, lot 144 (£30,000 including premium),

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