A GEORGE II GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIR

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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIR
The serpentine-crested rectangular padded back and seat covered in associated 18th Century gros and petit-point needlework, the back with a central cartouche of a goat and dog in a landscape with flowers, foliage and a butterfly, the seat with a further cartouche, with flowers, foliage and two dogs, on an ivory ground with red strapwork, the scrolled seat-rail centred by acanthus, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus and scrolled feet, one back foot restored, inscribed in pencil to the seat-rail 'WP' and in chalk '19', regilt

Provenance

Probably commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Pomfret for Easton Neston, Northamptonshire circa 1764.

Lot Essay

The chair's elegantly serpentined frame, with its rail enriched with an asymetrical Roman-acanthus cartouche and with foliated legs terminating in voluted feet, relates to seat furniture designed in the French 'picturesque' manner around 1760. It relates for example to a sofa engraving of 1759 issued in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 3rd ed., 1762, pl.XXX.
The chair formed part of a suite of drawing-room furniture that is likely to have been commissioned for Easton Neston, Northamptonshire by the 2nd Early of Pomfret around the time of his marriage in 1764 (illustrated in situ 'Easton Neston', Country Life, 14 November 1908 and H.A. Tipping, English Homes, Period IV, vol.II, London, 1928, p. 133, fig. 182).

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