Lot 112
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS

PROBABLY CIRCA 1765

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
PROBABLY CIRCA 1765
Each with a cartouche-shaped padded back covered in floral needlework, the toprail centred by a foliate cartouche, with serpentine arms, on a serpentine seat-rail with cabriole legs, regilt, one with 18th century needlework on the back and modern needlework on the seat, the other chair with 19th early 20th Century needlework made to match, one front rail replaced (2)
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Lot Essay

The chairs' shell-decked rails and feet relate to those from sets of George III armchairs at Osterley Park, Middlesex, and Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. Their reed-framed backs relate to a Louis XV pattern chair design in the drawings album of the Berkeley Square firm of William and John Linnell (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, F/4).

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