Lot Essay
The chair displays a mythological vignette emblematical of the Element of Water and celebrating the Loves of the water-deity Neptune, with his attendant triton abducting the nymph Amymone.
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A GEORGE I WALNUT WING ARMCHAIR
The arched padded back and seat cushion covered in 18th Century gros and petit point needlework with mythological and Biblical scenes, birds, butterflies, flowers and foliage, on cabriole legs joined by turned baluster stretchers, on pad feet, some of the framing of the seat-rail replaced, restorations and replacements to the 18th Century needlework, the external needlework panels replaced
The arched padded back and seat cushion covered in 18th Century gros and petit point needlework with mythological and Biblical scenes, birds, butterflies, flowers and foliage, on cabriole legs joined by turned baluster stretchers, on pad feet, some of the framing of the seat-rail replaced, restorations and replacements to the 18th Century needlework, the external needlework panels replaced
Provenance
Acquired by Colonel Norman Colville M.C.
Literature
M. Jourdain, 'Late XVII and Early XVIII Century Chairs in the Collection of Captain Colville', Country Life, 20 October 1921, p. 551, fig. 1.
H. Cescinsky, English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, New York, 1937, p. 174.
J. Cornforth, The Search for a Style, London, 1988, p. 203, pl. 194.
H. Cescinsky, English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, New York, 1937, p. 174.
J. Cornforth, The Search for a Style, London, 1988, p. 203, pl. 194.
Special notice
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