A GEORGE I WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIR

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A GEORGE I WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIR
The shaped rectangular padded back and seat covered in light-green and pink floral-cut velvet, the outcurved arms on serpentine supports, on cabriole legs headed by scrolled angle-brackets and joined by a turned X-shaped stretcher with pad feet, one angle-bracket replaced, the back feet spliced, the cresting possibly reshaped

Literature

G.W. Whiteman (ed.), 'Ludstone Hall, Claverley, Shropshire', The Antique Collector, London, December 1965-January 1966, p. 238 (shown in situ in the Drawing-Room).

Lot Essay

A related open armchair with similar scrolled angles and carved knees was sold by Major Peter Loyd, in these Rooms, 8 February 1972, lot 36. A further walnut armchair with similar shaped back was sold from the Estate of Henry Ford II, Turville Grange, Turville Heath, Henley, Oxfordshire, Sotheby's house sale, 5 December 1988, lot 22.

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