A PAIR OF GILT-GESSO SIDE CHAIRS

POSSIBLY 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GILT-GESSO SIDE CHAIRS
Possibly 18th century
Each scrolled crestrail above a baluster-shaped backsplat carved with strapwork and pendant bellflowers in low relief, the shaped drop-in seat covered in a patterend cream silk, over a shaped seatrail centered by lappets, on cabriole legs carved at the knees, on faceted pad feet, numbered V and VI, regilt and regessoed (2)

Lot Essay

These chairs, with their sunflowered backs and overall form, relate closely to the set of eight side chairs that formed part of the celebrated suite at Stowe in Buckinghamshire. The Stowe suite was likely to have been supplied to Richard Temple (d.1749) for 1st Viscount Cobham in the 1740s by Benjamin Goodison, cabinet-maker to George II. The suite was dispersed in the 19th century, the majority of which is now in the Royal collection at Windsor Castle, while a settee and stool are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A pair of chairs from the set, purchased by collector Dudley Ward in the Christie's 1848 Stowe house sale, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 4 July 1997, lot 32 (£45,500).

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