Details
A pair of George III floral and cream-painted open armchairs
Each with railed arcaded backs with tablet centred splats, with downswept arms, the seats with button-down squab cushions, upholstered in green rep, on square tapering legs with collared feet, with painted inventory nos. 1847 and 1848, decoration refreshed (2)
Each with railed arcaded backs with tablet centred splats, with downswept arms, the seats with button-down squab cushions, upholstered in green rep, on square tapering legs with collared feet, with painted inventory nos. 1847 and 1848, decoration refreshed (2)
Further details
This pattern of squab-cushioned chair with hermed legs and fretted-splats relates to parlour chairs illustrated in Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co's. Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guides 1788-94. This splat pattern, centred by a flowered tablet features on a chair sketch in the 1793 Estimate book of Gillows of Oxford Street, London and Lancaster; while the japanned ornament of ribbon-tied laurels is also typical fo their work (see L.Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995 fig. 278). Part of this Parham suite, comprising six armchairs, was sold Christie's King Street 21 April 1966, lot 126