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A GEORGE IV IVORY AND WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIR
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A GEORGE IV IVORY AND WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1825, POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS

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A GEORGE IV IVORY AND WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1825, POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS
With bobbin-turned back, the padded arms and seat covered in distressed horsehair and wool, on bobbin-turned legs with lacquered brass caps and castors stamped 'Cope & Collinson Patent', with the '1861' inventory, traces of earlier blue paint and gilt decorated, the three bobbin terminals to the arms and the two to the top-rail in ivory, branded '12' on the webbing, probably originally ebonised
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Lot Essay

Designed in the 'antiquarian' or Old English taste, its original ebonised colouring associated with Pompeian and Etruscan antiquity, this bobbin-turned chair was almost certainly commissioned by John, 6th Duke of Bedford (d.1839). Echoing the tastes of contemporaries such as William Beckford at Fonthill and Edmund Fairfax-Lucy at Charlecote Park, as well as the promotions of Wardour Street dealers, who prized old ebony-turned Indian furniture as being 'Elizabethan', this chair is especially luxurious in having turned solid ivory ball finials to the arms.

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