LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS
LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with a channelled frame, with rectangular five pillared back, above a caned seat, with blue silk squab-cushion, on square tapering legs headed by later paterae, refreshments to the decoration (2)

Provenance

Major J.S. Courtauld and by descent to his daughter
Miss Jeanne Courtauld, Cooke's House, Pulborough, West Sussex.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

These fluted and reeded open armchairs closely relate to a design published by A. Hepplewhite & Co. in The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, London, 3rd ed., 1794, pl. 11.
A pair of related satinwood open armchairs was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 17 April 1997, lot 107.

Major Courtauld was a member of the Courtauld family that founded the Courtauld Institute. He and his daughter also owned the pair of William and Mary giltwood and verre églomisé oval mirrors that were exhibited by Ronald Phillips Ltd. in Reflections of the Past: Masterpiece Mirrors 1685-1815, Ingrao Inc., New York, October 2004.

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