拍品 127
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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR
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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR

ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE, CIRCA 1775

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE, CIRCA 1775
With channelled frame, the oval padded back, armrests and seat covered in golden striped damask, above a fluted and patera-enriched seatrail, on turned tapering fluted legs headed by entrelac and beaded collars, with cramp-cuts, regilt
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The design of this elegant chair, with Roman-medallion back in the French 'cabriolet' fashion, can be attributed to the celebrated Soho cabinet-making partnership established in 1759 by William Ince and John Mayhew and publicised by their furniture pattern-book, The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762. With its festive libation-patera enriching an antique-fluted rail, the chair would have harmonised with the architecture of a grand room-of-entertainment designed in the 1770s by one of the court architects, Sir William Chambers (d. 1796) or Robert Adam (d. 1792). For instance, the same pattern of columnar leg and acanthus-flowered back features on closely related 'Cabriole Chairs' chairs designed by John Mayhew in harmony with Robert Adam's Roman-patterned ceiling introduced at Chirk Castle, Wrexham, Wales in the 1770s (three of the Chirk chairs were sold from Chirk Castle, Christie's house sale, 21 June 2004 lots 50 and 51).