A PAIR OF GEORGE I WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS

Details
A PAIR OF GEORGE I WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
CIRCA 1725

Each yoke-form back crested by a shell above a solid splat, the trapezoidal drop-in seat upholstered in cranberry silk damask, on hipped cabriole legs and claw and ball feet (2)
Provenance
Viscount Leverhulme, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 9-13 February 1926, lot 399

Lot Essay

A similar chair from the Samuel Messer Collection was sold Christie's London, 5 December 1991, lot 64, and a pair en suite sold in these Rooms, 29 April 1992, lot 141; others from this group are illustrated in M. Harris and Sons, An Abridged Introductory Catalogue of Antique Furniture and Works of Art, n.d., p. 34 (No. F9268), and a set from the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. collection was sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, 6-7 May 1960, lot 363.