CIRCA 1720

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A GEORGE I WALNUT AND NEEDLEWORK WING ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1720
The rectangular back, shaped sides, outscrolled arms and seat cushion covered in associated 18th century gros and petit point needlework, above moulded and scrolled seat rails and cabriole legs carved with scallop shells, the pad feet with later brass castors, restorations, the back seat rail replaced
48 ¼ in. (123 cm.) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 1990, lot 123.
With Partidge Fine Arts, London.
Quai D'Orsay, Paris - An Apartment by Jacques Grange; Christie's, London, 19 November 2010.

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Lot Essay

The wing armchair displays highly distinctive and unusual moulded walnut seat rails which have few parallels. Perhaps the closest comparable chair, possibly the only other known example, was acquired by the celebrated collector Percival D. Griffiths in 1936 and was published by R.W. Symonds in his landmark volume Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, Batsford, London, 1940, col. pl. II. It was later acquired under Symonds' guidance for the collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation from Mrs. Geoffrey Hart and subsequently sold by the Foundation, Sotheby's New York, 24 October 1992, lot 320 ($231,000 inc' prem').

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