A pair of George III open armchairs, in the manner of John Linnell

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A pair of George III open armchairs, in the manner of John Linnell
One gilded, one painted, each with a channelled frame upholstered in patterned floral fabric, the oval padded back surmounted by a paterae with husk stems, the padded arms with scrolled terminals, on channelled shaped supports, with a bowed seat rail conforming to the top-rail, on paterae headed stop-fluted turned tapering legs, re-decorated (2)

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The rectilinear arm design of these chairs resembles the known work of John Linnell. The channelled arm approaches the top of the leg at right angles as on a suite supplied in c.1775-8 to Inveraray Castle, illustrated in H. Hayward and P. Kirkham William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol II, pl.90. An identical leg appears on a chair frame illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, vol. III, p.208, fig. 243.

A set of ten comparable armchairs were sold for (41,800 (including premium), Christie's King Street, 5th December 1991, lot 245.

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