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A GEORGE I GILT-GESSO SOFA
Reframed
The rectangular padded back and seat covered in blue material, the out-scrolled arms carved with foliage, on foliage-clasped baluster supports, with a foliage-carved apron centred by a medallion, on acanthus-headed cabriole legs with shaped pad feet, regilt, possibly altered in width
41 in. (104 cm.) high; 58 in. (147.5 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) depth of seat

Provenance

Sylvia Phyllis Adams, sold Bonhams London, 8 May 1996, lot 16 (£11,000).
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 8 June 1997, lot 617 (£10,925).

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Lot Essay

Sylvia Phyllis Adams was a dealer and collector of Renaissance bronzes, maiolica, plaquettes and objets d'art from the late 1930s to the 1950s, at a time when such items were not widely collected. As a result, she was able to assemble a collection of superb items when her contemporaries favoured other periods. Her collection was sold in a series of five sales at Bonhams in May 1996.

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