CIRCA 1790

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SOFA
CIRCA 1790
With gadrooned gently arched top-rail and lappeted frame, the padded back, sides, seat and six seat cushions covered in light-green foliate silk damask, on eight turned tapering fluted legs with lappeted capitals and bands, the front seatrail replaced, regilt
41 in. (104 cm.) high; 84 in. (213.5 cm.) wide; 35½ in. (90.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably supplied to John Pollexfen Bastard, Esq., M.P., (d. 1816) for Kitley, Yealmpton, Devon and by descent at Kitley.

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Lot Essay

Kitley, Devon, was the seat of the Bastard family since 1692, when William Bastard married Anne Pollexfen, heiress of Kitley. The original manor house was replaced by an early Georgian house, which was in turn remodelled in the 1820s for Edmund Pollexfen Bastard by the architect George Stanley Repton, son of Humphrey Repton.
The most famous resident of Kitley was Mother Hubbard, the early 19th century housekeeper, immortalised in verse by one of the family.

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