A VICTORIAN BLUE AND WHITE-PAINTED OPEN ARMCHAIR

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A VICTORIAN BLUE AND WHITE-PAINTED OPEN ARMCHAIR
The cartouche-shaped channelled frame with husk-trails centred by a patera, with padded back, the scrolled arms, and bowed seat covered in floral silk, above a patera and fluted seat-rail, on turned foliate-wrapped baluster legs and toupie feet, with plastic label to the underside 'OM 876', redecorated, the feet tipped

AND A LOUIS XV WHITE AND GREEN-PAINTED FAUTEUIL
The channelled back, arms and seat covered in pale-green and white floral cotton, on cabriole legs and toupie feet, restorations, redecorated, the underside inscribed '199/127/' (2)

Provenance

The Parker Knoll records state that the second chair was acquired from Phillips, on 30 April 1911 for £13.10.0.

Lot Essay

'Cabriole elbow chairs' relating to the second chair, with medallioned cresting, were supplied for Audley End, Essex in 1771 under the direction of the architect Robert Adam (d. 1792) by Messrs. Gordon and Taitt of Swallow Street (J. Cornforth, 'Audley End, Essex-1', Country Life, 27 December 1990, pp. 32-33, figs. 2 and 3).

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