A SET OF TWELVE REGENCY EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING-CHAIRS by John Gee, each with pierced rectangular back with caned tablet above a caned oval, the bowed caned seats with squab cushions covered in buttoned fluted yellow silk, on ring-turned tapering legs, all stamped JG (J encircled within a large G), six also stamped I.L, six also stamped WP, of the latter six, on stamped three times G, three stamped VVV, one stamped W, THE DECORATION REFRESHED (12)

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A SET OF TWELVE REGENCY EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING-CHAIRS by John Gee, each with pierced rectangular back with caned tablet above a caned oval, the bowed caned seats with squab cushions covered in buttoned fluted yellow silk, on ring-turned tapering legs, all stamped JG (J encircled within a large G), six also stamped I^.L, six also stamped WP, of the latter six, on stamped three times G, three stamped VVV, one stamped W, THE DECORATION REFRESHED (12)

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ANONYMOUS SALE, IN THESE ROOMS, 25 JUNE 1987, LOT 147

拍品專文

IN 1779 JOHN GEE REPLACED THOMAS AYLIFFE AS PARTNER TO BENJAMIN CROMPTON, WHO HAD BEEN TURNER IN ORDINARY TO GEORGE III SINCE 1762. FROM 1799, GEE, OF 49 WARDOUR STREET, SOHO, WAS LISTED IN THE LONDON DIRECTORIES, AND BY 1803, AS WELL AS BEING INCLUDED IN THE LIST OF MASTER CABINET-MAKERS ATTACHED TO SHERATON'S CABINET DICTIONARY, HE WAS REFERRED TO AS 'CHAIRMAKER AND TURNER TO HIS MAJESTY'. HE IS NOT RECORDED AFTER 1824.

THE INITIALS FURTHER TO THE JG MONOGRAM ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY MARKS OF INDIVIDUAL CHAIRMAKERS IN GEE'S EMPLOY. ALTHOUGH SOME OF THESE CHAIRES APPEAR TO BE STAMPED 'I.L', THIS MARK HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN RECORDED AS 'IT'. TWO EBONISED AND PAINTED ARMCHAIRS, SIMILARLY STAMPED WITH THE JG MONOGRAM AND FURTHER STAMPED 'IT' ARE AT TEMPLE NEWSAM HOUSE, LEEDS (CAT.1, P.100). EIGHT EBONISED CHAIRS, ALL STAMPED 'GEE' AND 'IT', AND TWO SETTEES EN SUITE, BOTH STAMPED 'GEE' AND 'WP' ARE IN A PRIVATE HOUSE IN MONMOUTHSHIRE. TWO ARMCHAIRS, STAMPED 'WP' FROM A SET OF TWELVE SIMULATED ROSEWOOD DINING-CHAIRS, WERE SOLD IN THESE ROOMS, 9 APRIL 1992, LOT 94 (SEE DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH FURNITURE-MAKERS 1660-1840, LEEDS 1986, P.334)