MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR
MID-18TH CENTURY
The shaped open back with vase-shaped splat backed by spindles. The serpentine arms on arched supports above a solid saddle seat, on cabriole legs and pad feet, headed by scrolls, the underside of the seat inscribed in ink 'Mr. John Yeats Warbrough sale (?)', lacking the left ear on the front right leg, originally with scrolled arm terminals

Provenance

John Yeats, Warbrough.

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Lot Essay

This large chair appears to be en suite with a pair advertised by C. Fredericks & Son of Old Brompton Road (trade advertisement, Apollo, June 1970). A similar chair, with additional spindle in place of the vase-capped baluster splat was exhibited by Witney Antiques at the 1997 Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair. It also relates to a 1750's 'Slough' or 'Windsor' chair by Richard Hewett discussed in Nancy Goyne Evans, 'A History and Background of English Windsor Furniture', Furniture History, 1979, pp. 24-53, pl. 84).

An almost identical armchair, with scrolled arm terminals, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 22 April 2004, lot 29.

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