A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR
The shaped back, arms, seat-rail and squab-cushion covered in light-blue silk, the scrolled arms terminating in acanthus leaves, on cluster-column legs, restorations, with plastic label to the underside 'Guaranteed Genuine by STAIR & CO. 59E 57TH Street New York NY and Williams Burg Va /' and with chalk inscription 'N8740' restorations, three feet tipped, and probably originally with castors, later blocks, the side rails resupported

Provenance

Possibly Sir Walter Gilbey, Bt., Cambridge House, London, sold Knight Frank and Rutley, London, 8 March 1910, lot 34.

Lot Essay

The easy-chair's 'gothic' legs, with ring-tied cluster columns, corresponds to a leg-pattern that was popularised by Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754 (pl. XXXIX).

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