ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1780

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1780
With oval medallion-shaped back with guilloche-carved border enclosing pierced foliate scrolls, centred by a patera, with leaf-carved arms above serpentine padded seat covered in crimson watered silk, with guilloche-carved seatrail, on square reeded tapering legs with lotus-leaf pinched feet

來源

With Hotspur Ltd.

出版

LITERATURE FOR THE SUITE
R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 99, fig. 68 [a settee from the suite].

展覽

Luton Museum, before 1939.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The chair, of French 'cabriolet' form, reflects the elegant George III antique style introduced in the late 1770s. The back's ribbon-guilloche features on chairs at Osterley Park, Middlesex designed in 1777 by the architect Robert Adam (d. 1792). The latter have been attributed to John Linnell of Berkeley Square (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, H/3 and K/3). Two settees and four armchairs from the suite are now in the de Young Museum, San Francisco (no. 75.23) Some of this group may have been acquired following the sale of a settee and seven armchairs, sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 23 October 1953, lot 81A. Alternatively a set of seven armchairs was sold by the Misses Russell Allen, Christie's, London, 19 July 1956, lot 49. Other chairs from the suite to have appeared on the market include a single armchair sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 24 October 1984, lot 189; another sold anonymously, Sotheby's, London, 7 June 1986, lot 151; and a pair sold anonymously, Sotheby's, London, 7 November 1997, lot 56. The settee illustrated in The Dictionary of English Furniture was in the possession of the dealer Angel Botibol.
The Roman medallion shield back, wreathed by a pearled ribbon-guilloche, encloses a central patera, whose Palmyreen sunflower badge evok es the poetry deity Apollo and is festooned with laurels issuing from a cartouche of Roman foliage.