A GEORGE III SILVERED ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1770

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A GEORGE III SILVERED ARMCHAIR
Circa 1770
The padded oval back, arms and bowfront seat upholstered in green and blue striped cream ground cotton, the back with reeded frame and centered shell clasp to the top rail issuing garlands to each side, the out turned arms with inscrolled terminals on downswept grooved supports, the seat rail similarly reeded, each panelled patera-headed acanthus-carved tapering leg on ball feet

Lot Essay

The unusual palm-wrapped legs and gadrooned bun feet appear on a side table supplied by Thomas Chippendale for Harewood House, Yorkshire in circa 1769 (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, vol.II, New York, 1978, p. 259, fig. 473). John Linnell produced a chair design with similiar legs from circa 1768-1770 which is illustrated in H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, vol.II, New York, 1980, pl.82.

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