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

ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1770

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1770
The waisted curved upholstered backs with channelled frames and foliate crestings with outswept part-upholstered arms on scrolled supports with padded seats and rosette-centered fluted serpentine rail on further rosette-capped foliate-carved turned and fluted tapering legs with gadrooned bun feet, redecorated, the seats now sprung, bearing cramp cuts. inscribed in white chalk A6213 (2)

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The form and profile of this pair of chairs together with the constructional attributes, such as the constructional cramp cuts to the seat-rails, suggest Thomas Chippendale as a potential maker. A chair attributed to Chippendale which displays a similarly shaped back and serpentine fluted seat-rail was most probably supplied to Edwin Lascelles for Harewood House, Yorkshire. The chair is illustrated in A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 344, and further displays a similar profile to the arms and a collared leg though differing slightly in the foot.

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