Lot 120
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A SET OF TWELVE PALE-GREY PAINTED OPEN ARMCHAIRS
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A SET OF TWELVE PALE-GREY PAINTED OPEN ARMCHAIRS

TEN GEORGE III, TWO 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE PALE-GREY PAINTED OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Ten George III, two 20th Century
Each with a channelled frame, the oval padded back, armrests and feet covered in close-nailed gros point needlework of ivory foliate trellis on a red ground, the beaded back centred by a palmette, with scrolled arms on downswept supports, on turned tapering fluted legs headed by square paterae panels, on turned tapering feet, three chairs inscribed in pencil 'Gale Smith (?)', minor restorations, redecorated (12)
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Lot Essay

The palm-flowered chairs have elegant Roman-medallioned backs in the Louis Seize 'cabriolet' fashion introduced in the 1770s by the St. Martin's Lane cabinet-makers such as Thomas Chippendale Senior (d. 1779). Their 'Etruscan' pearl-strings, that wreath their backs, featured on a medallion chair pattern drawn in the late 1770s by Thomas Chippendale Junior (d. 1822) when designing chairs for William Constable of Burton Constable, Yorkshire (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, fig. 202).

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