Lot 85
85
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA, the serpentine padded back, scrolled arms, seat and squab cushions covered in ivory silk damask, on square legs joined by stretchers, partially re-railed

Details
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA, the serpentine padded back, scrolled arms, seat and squab cushions covered in ivory silk damask, on square legs joined by stretchers, partially re-railed
85in. (216in.) wide
Provenance
Sold anonymously in these Rooms, 11 April 1985, lot 17

Lot Essay

Designed in the George II 'picturesque' manner, the serpentined frame with arch-centred cresting and volute-scrolled arms corresponds to a 1759 sofa pattern published by Thomas Chippendale in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 3rd. ed., 1762, pl. XXX. He also featured a related pattern of stretcher-tied pilaster legs on a 'French chair', ibid., pl. XIX

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