ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE OAKLEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF REGENCY OAK CANED SIDE CHAIRS
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE OAKLEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with pierced scrolled toprail carved with addorsed chimerae, above a vertical splat with pierced scrolled foliage, between moulded uprights and above a caned seat with reeded seat rail, on sabre legs, with red felt-covered squab cushion, incised 'Smith' (2)

来源

Possibly Smith.

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拍品专文

This Regency pattern of Grecian-scrolled chair with eagle-head cresting appears to have been invented by the Bond Street cabinet-maker George Oakley (d. 1841) for the library of Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Bath's Elizabethan mansion at Longleat, Wiltshire. In 1812 Oakley, whose 'Manufactory and Magazine for fashionable Furniture' was patronised by George, Prince Regent, later George IV, supplied an invoice for Longleat's matching leather-cushioned oak chairs, with solid rather then open-fretted carving (sold by the Trustees of the Longleat Chattels Settlement, Christie's, London, 13 June 2002, lot 361).
The chairs' addorsed eagle-heads emerging from foliate scrolls, combine the contemporary Grecian and 'Elizabethan' fashion, and relate to seventeenth century Indian ebony chairs, which nineteenth century antiquarians dated to the reign of Elizabeth I. The 'Smith' stamp is likely to be that of an owner, rather than that of a journeyman cabinet-maker.