CIRCA 1770

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1770
The frames with trailing interlaced ribbon decoration, with padded cartouche-shaped backs, arm-supports and serpentine padded seats, upholstered in striped floral silk-damask, on foliate tapering fluted legs, regilt, restorations (2)

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Lot Essay

This handsome pair of chairs with 1770's French-fashioned 'cabriolet' frames wreathed by ribbon-guilloches may have formed part of the furnishings introduced to Hagley Hall, Worcestershire by Francis Seymour,1st Earl of Yarmouth and 1st Marquess of Hertford (d. 1794), who served for a time as George III's ambassador to the Court of Louis XVI. An armchair of this pattern remains in situ at Hagley Hall (English Life Publications Ltd., Ragley Hall, 1993, p.11). The chairs also relate in character to a suite of seat furniture supplied in 1773 for the Glass Drawing-Room at Northumberland House, London by the Soho cabinet-maker and upholsterer James Cullen (d.1779)( C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p. 170, fig. 267).

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