Lot 36
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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with oval padded back, armrests and seat upholstered in peach silk, the frame with guilloche moulding, the channelled downswept scrolling arms above a serpentine seat-rail, on fluted turned tapering legs and toupie feet headed by stiff-leaf capitals and floral paterae, two with restorations to front seat-rail, re-gilt (4)

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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with oval padded back, armrests and seat upholstered in peach silk, the frame with guilloche moulding, the channelled downswept scrolling arms above a serpentine seat-rail, on fluted turned tapering legs and toupie feet headed by stiff-leaf capitals and floral paterae, two with restorations to front seat-rail, re-gilt (4)

Lot Essay

It is interesting to note that these chairs are of a pegged construction more typical of continental chairs of this date

A pair of chairs of similar design and with closely related down-scrolled arms was sold anonymously, Sotheby's New York, 19 October 1991, lot 139

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