Lot 384
384
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SETTEE

Details
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SETTEE
CIRCA 1770

The rounded padded back and loose cushion seat upholstered in yellow silk damask, within a frame carved with overlapping laurel leaves, on turned foliate-carved and stop-fluted legs (restorations to legs)- 93in.(236cm.) long

Lot Essay

The overlapping laurel leaf frame relates to a suite of furniture supplied by Thomas Chippendale for Sir Penistone Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne for Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire (illustrated in C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, vol. II, 1978, p. 200, pl. 364). A suite at Windsor Castle, attributed to Chippendale, also features a laurel leaf frame and fluted baluster legs headed by acanthus as on the offered lot (ibid, p. 200, pl. 365).