Lot Essay
These medallion-seated chairs with elegantly serpentined and moulded frames are embellished with leaf-festooned flower-sprays are designed in the Louis XV 'antique' style of the 1760's.
Their general form and ornament relates to that of a chaise en cabriolet bearing the brand of Jean Gourdin, of the rue de Clery, a member of a celebrated family of Parisian Menuisiers (see P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Francais du XVIII Siècle, Paris 1989, p.365).
Similar to a design by Thomas Malton for a 'Modern chair now in use' in his Compleat Treatise on Perspective, London 1775, pl. XXXIII. A closely related pair of George III chairs were sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 10 October 1990, lot 137.
Their general form and ornament relates to that of a chaise en cabriolet bearing the brand of Jean Gourdin, of the rue de Clery, a member of a celebrated family of Parisian Menuisiers (see P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Francais du XVIII Siècle, Paris 1989, p.365).
Similar to a design by Thomas Malton for a 'Modern chair now in use' in his Compleat Treatise on Perspective, London 1775, pl. XXXIII. A closely related pair of George III chairs were sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 10 October 1990, lot 137.