EARLY 19TH CENTURY, BY JOHN GEE, STAMPED WITH JG DEVIDE PLUS INITIALS IT

One of the leading early 19th Century manufacturers of Grecian-scrolled seat furniture, with japanned and caned frames, was the Wardour Street chair-maker John Gee. He traded as 'Chairmaker and Turner' to George III, and two virtually identical chairs are illustrated in C. Gilbert, The Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, figs. 381-382.