A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY COCKPEN ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1770

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY COCKPEN ARMCHAIRS
Circa 1770
Each rectangular back with rounded re-entrant corners pierced with geometric fretwork centered by an elongated hexagon, the canted similarly pierced arms with downswept uprights, the green silk-upholstered drop-in seat above chamfered square legs headed by pierced angles and joined by an H-stretcher (2)

Lot Essay

The interlocking design of these backs is based on a design for 'Chinese Chairs' published in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl.XXV and again in the third edition, 1763, pl.XXVIII. A set of four chairs (and a settee) which correspond exactly to the Chippendale pattern with pierced fretwork legs are in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (illustrated in A.Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, New York, 1968, pl.196). Chippendale considered these chairs 'very proper for a Lady's Dressing-Room; especially if it is hung with India paper...They have commonly can bottoms, with loose cushions'.

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