MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY SCOTTISH

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A PAIR OF EARLY GEORGE III WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIRS
MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY SCOTTISH
Each with serpentine-crested rectangular padded back, armrests and seat covered in close-nailed ivory foliate silk damask, the arms carved with foliage on a stippled ground, on square blind fret legs with stippled ground, joined by an H-shaped stretcher, with later leather castors, one inscribed three times in pencil and crayon '2039', with ash seat-rails
38 in. (97 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

The 1st Baron Marks of Broughton (1888-1964) and by descent.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The leg pilasters are sunk with Gothic-cusped and fretted tablets after a 1753 pattern published in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754 (pl. 36). A suite of chairs of similar form, with hollowed and outward scroll arm-supports, was supplied in the early 1760s for Corsham Court, Wiltshire by the Golden Square upholsterer, George Cole (G. Beard, Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530-1840, New Haven and London, 1997, fig. 306).

Unusually, the chairs are made in walnut, an unusual choice when mahogany was being imported in large quantities from Jamaica and being used by many of the leading chair-makers of the 1760s.

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