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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Each with cartouche-shaped channelled padded back above a padded serpentine seat covered in yellow silk damask, on cabriole legs with scrolled feet, redecorated, one with later blocks (2)
來源
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 21 October 1999, lot 257.
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拍品專文

These chairs exemplify the popularitiy of French taste in English furniture in the late 1760s and early 1770s. Leading cabinet-makers such as John Linnell and Thomas Chippendale designed various models for 'French chairs' during this period. The chairs' overall design related to patterns published by Thomas Chippendale in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1762, pl. XXIII.
A set of related chairs with similar moulded frames in the French taste was delivered by Linnell to William Drake at Shardeloes in 1768 (illustrated in H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, p. 34, fig. 61).