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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SIMULATED SATINWOOD AND GREEN DECORATED OPEN ARMCHAIRS
decorated overall with boxwood and ebonised lines, each with shield shaped back and seat covered in light green floral silk damask, the outcurved arms on downswept supports decorated with foliage, the bowfronted seatrail centred by overall foliage paterae issuing foliage on square tapered legs decorated with conforming foliage, one inscribed in pencil to the underside (Kitley) and stamped V1, originally caned, one seatrail replaced and one partially replaced, restorations and refreshments to the decoration, two front legs replaced and two spliced
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decorated overall with boxwood and ebonised lines, each with shield shaped back and seat covered in light green floral silk damask, the outcurved arms on downswept supports decorated with foliage, the bowfronted seatrail centred by overall foliage paterae issuing foliage on square tapered legs decorated with conforming foliage, one inscribed in pencil to the underside (Kitley) and stamped V1, originally caned, one seatrail replaced and one partially replaced, restorations and refreshments to the decoration, two front legs replaced and two spliced
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Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's King Street 12 February 1998, lot 134
Probably supplied to John Pollexfen Barstard Esq MP (d.1816) for Kitley, Devonshire and thence by descent to Mrs John Barstard Kitley sold Christie's house sale 19-20 October 1987, lot 791
Probably supplied to John Pollexfen Barstard Esq MP (d.1816) for Kitley, Devonshire and thence by descent to Mrs John Barstard Kitley sold Christie's house sale 19-20 October 1987, lot 791
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