Lot 112
112
Sold by Order of the Administrators of the Late LADY ILLINGWORTH
A PAIR OF MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS of George II style, the waved padded back, outward spreading arms and padded seat upholstered in close-nailed light brown damask, the arm terminals with ormolu tips, the frame carved with rosette-filled entrelac, the eared cabriole legs carved with acanthus and flower-heads, on hairy paw feet, 19th Century, each with calico dust-cover (2)

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A PAIR OF MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS of George II style, the waved padded back, outward spreading arms and padded seat upholstered in close-nailed light brown damask, the arm terminals with ormolu tips, the frame carved with rosette-filled entrelac, the eared cabriole legs carved with acanthus and flower-heads, on hairy paw feet, 19th Century, each with calico dust-cover (2)

Lot Essay

The design of these armchairs appears to be based on a set of chairs in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Devonshire and which appear in watercolours by William Hunt and David Cox of the Withdrawing Room and the Long Gallery respectively at Hardwich Hall, Derbyshire in the first half of the 19th Century.

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