Lot 240
240
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A GEORGE II STYLE GILTWOOD DAYBED

Details
A GEORGE II STYLE GILTWOOD DAYBED

The scrolled ends and loose cushion seat upholstered in green velvet and applied with a Brussels baroque tapestry border, the frame with Vitruvian scrolls and central lion's mask to each side, on scrolling eagle monopodia supports and talon and ball feet with casters--25in. (64cm.) high, 84in. (213cm.) long, 36in. (92cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A nearly identical Georgian example from the collection of 1st Viscount Leverhulme is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Leverhulme Art Collection: Furniture, Tapestry and Needlework, vol. III, 1928, no. 103, pl. 31.