A PAIR OF GEORGE II STYLE WALNUT 'COCKFIGHTING' ARMCHAIRS

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE II STYLE WALNUT 'COCKFIGHTING' ARMCHAIRS
Each with padded incurving armrest, back and seat covered in close-nailed beige leather on scroll-headed cabriole legs and pad feet (2)

Provenance

Sold to benefit the Permanent Charities Committee of the Entertainment Industries, Los Angeles, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Los Angeles, 17 February 1971, lot 162

Lot Essay

According to the 1971 sale catalogue, these chairs appeared in three film classics: Laura (1944), the Oscar-winning mystery starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews; Daddy Long Legs (1955), a musical starring Fred Astaire, and Myra Breckenridge (1970) with Rachael Welch and Mae West. A production still showing one of the chairs with Actor Tyrone Power was reproduced in the catalogue.