A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS

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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Each with pierced rectangular latice back flanked by conforming downswept arms, above a padded seat covered in beige velour, and with matching buttoned squab cushions, on moulded square chamfered legs headed by scrolled brackets and joined by stretchers, restorations, several angle-brackets and cross-strutts replaced (8)

來源

Bought from Hotspur in 1966.

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

These chairs, with their interlaced diagonal patterned splats, follow the design of 'Chinese Double Brac'd Paleing' in William Halfpenny's Twenty New Designs of Chinese Lattice, London, 1750. Related chair back patterns feature in Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, London 1st ed., 1754. While Chippendale noted that such chairs were particularly appropriate for Chinese Temples, he also mentions that 'Designs of chairs after the Chinese manner... are very proper for a lady's Dressing Room, especially if hung with India (Chinese) paper'.
Three pairs of elaborately embellished walnut side chairs, with this splat design, were supplied to Edward Weld Esq., Lulworth Castle, and sold by family descent, in these Rooms, 5 December 1991, lots 232-234. A set of five pagoda-topped mahogany armchairs, with the same splat and arm design as the present lot, were sold by Lord Hastings, removed from Melton Constable, Norfolk, Sotheby's London, 17 March 1950, lot 110.