A GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR

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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 71-81)

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR
The rectangular padded back and serpentine seat covered in later floral-patterned gros point needlework, the padded arms with outcurved scroll terminals and acanthus-wrapped supports, above a serpentine seatrail centred by a shell issuing acanthus, on shell-headed cabriole legs and scroll feet, later cross-struts, one back ear replaced

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Bought from Partridge, London, 28 September 1982.

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

This Ionic-scrolled chair celebrates Venus, the nature deity's triumph with her 'shell' cartouches borne amongst wavy reed-tied Roman foliage. Its French 'picturesque' form derives from the Louis XV 'fauteuil' of the 1730s as featured in the engraved Oeuvres of Juste-Aurele Meissonnier (d. 1750) (M. Jarry, Le Siege Francais, Fribourg, 1973, D.27). Such 'French Chairs' in the 'Modern' style were popularised by Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754. The Francophile 4th Duke of Bedford commissioned 'French' chairs from the Covent Garden chair-maker John Bladwell (d. 1768) in 1752 and Bladwell has been credited with the execution of related frames for Danthon's 'Aesop's Fable' tapestries woven in the late 1750s and supplied for Uppark, Hampshire (Exhibition Catalogue, Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England, London, 1984, L29).

A chair of this pattern, with closely related carved details, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 3 July 1997, lot 88 (£38,900).