The Property of the Late Lord Lurgan,Sold by Order of the Executors.
A pair of George II style mahogany open armchairs, each with outscrolled top rail carved with drapery swags, foliage and eagle arm terminals, with C-scroll solid splats carved with shells and claw feet, the uprights with flowerheads, the scroll arms with eagles head terminals above serpentine drop-in painted leather seat on cabriole legs with ball and claw feet headed by grotesque masks.
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A pair of George II style mahogany open armchairs, each with outscrolled top rail carved with drapery swags, foliage and eagle arm terminals, with C-scroll solid splats carved with shells and claw feet, the uprights with flowerheads, the scroll arms with eagles head terminals above serpentine drop-in painted leather seat on cabriole legs with ball and claw feet headed by grotesque masks.
This Hogarthian chair with eagle-escutcheon back and bacchic satyr-headed lion feet is inspired by the celebrated George II seat in Sir John Soane's museum, discussed by R.W.Symonds in Country Life Magazine, 27 Jan. 1950. (2)
This Hogarthian chair with eagle-escutcheon back and bacchic satyr-headed lion feet is inspired by the celebrated George II seat in Sir John Soane's museum, discussed by R.W.Symonds in Country Life Magazine, 27 Jan. 1950. (2)