A GEORGE I WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIR

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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 52-62)

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A GEORGE I WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIR
The vase-shaped splat surmounted by a shell cresting flanked by foliage, with arched stiles above curved 'shepherd's crook' arms and a padded drop-in seat covered in later floral needlework, above an apron centred by a shell, on shell-headed cabriole legs and claw feet, repairs to arms

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Middleton Hall, Belford, Northumberland, until 1947.

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拍品專文

The scrolled toprail is centred by Venus's shell-badge amidst 'Roman' foliage, while the serpentined legs and seat-rail are similarly adorned with the Love deity's badge, and the 'claw' feet evoke Jupiter's sacred eagle. A double-chairback settee, possibly originally part of the same suite, was sold by the Showering Family, in these Rooms, 21 November 1985, lot 164 (£26,000). It was illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Walnut, 1905, fig. 205; and R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 82, fig. 27.