A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR attributed to Thomas Chippendale, the oval padded back, arm-rests and serpentine seat covered in gros point floral needlework, with ribbon-tied swag cresting and laurel front seat-rail, on reeded turned tapering legs and turned feet, re-gilt, with exposed back-strut and cramp-cuts

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR attributed to Thomas Chippendale, the oval padded back, arm-rests and serpentine seat covered in gros point floral needlework, with ribbon-tied swag cresting and laurel front seat-rail, on reeded turned tapering legs and turned feet, re-gilt, with exposed back-strut and cramp-cuts

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The outline and construction of this chair correspond to one of Thomas Chippendale's standard documented patterns of the late 1770s, for example those supplied either to Egremont House or Petworth circa 1778 and now at Petworth (see: C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 109, fig. 187). The main difference, as so often, is in the cresting