Lot Essay
The drawing-room window seats, with their flowered tablets and antique-fluted frames and legs, are designed in the George III antique manner of the 1760s.
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CIRCA 1770
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III DECORATED WINDOW SEATS
CIRCA 1770
Each with padded scrolled arms with applied foliage panels, above a fluted frieze, on turned fluted legs headed by rectangular paterae, each with indistinct pencil inscription 'Mr B...', one decorated in pale green, the other painted white with loose arm panels
25¾ in. (65.5 cm.) high; 44 in. (112 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep (2)
CIRCA 1770
Each with padded scrolled arms with applied foliage panels, above a fluted frieze, on turned fluted legs headed by rectangular paterae, each with indistinct pencil inscription 'Mr B...', one decorated in pale green, the other painted white with loose arm panels
25¾ in. (65.5 cm.) high; 44 in. (112 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
The Leigh family, Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire and subsequently in the 19th century Lees Court, Faversham, Kent.
Special notice
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