Lot Essay
Another chair of this exact model is illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, n.d. (1911), vol. I, p. 203, fig. 211 and described as being one of a set of six
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A GEORGE I GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED SIDE CHAIR, decorated overall with chinoiserie flowers, figures and trellis, the caned cartouche-shaped back with solid vase-shaped splat below a scallop-shell, with caned seat and shell-centred front seat-rail, on cabriole legs headed by scallop-shells and joined by an H-shaped stretcher, on claw-and-ball feet, traces of the original green decoration, the cross-stretcher replaced