AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with serpentine toprail above a pierced interlaced splat and padded seat covered in close-nailed green leather, on square legs with pierced later angle-brackets, rerailed (2)

Provenance

Harvey Ferry, Esq., Nettlebed, Oxfordshire.
Bought from John G. Morris, Ltd., Market Square, Petworth, West Sussex, 11 January 1997.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Chairs of this 'Director' pattern are at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Its pattern featured in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl. XII and as pl. XII & XIV in the 1762. To date, no bill has been traced linking the Nostell set to Chippendale. However, his firm must be a strong candidate for their authorship on account of the quantity of other furniture supplied by Chippendale to Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Bt., for Nostell Priory and 11 St James's Square, London between 1766-1785 (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 174 & vol. II, p. 83, fig. 131).

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