SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with a solid vase-shaped splat flanked by serpentine stiles above a padded drop-in seat covered in yellow velvet, the seat-rail centred by a satyr mask, on cabriole legs headed by stylised shells, on claw feet, the satyr masks apparently original, one back leg spliced and two back feet tipped, three ears replaced, some rebacking to ears (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 16 April 1997, lot 179.

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Lot Essay

An almost identical compass-fronted parlour chair was in Percival Griffiths' collection at Sandridgebury, Hertfordshire, and is ilustrated in R. W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, London, 1929, p. 33, fig. 13, and a similar related parlour chair from the collection of the Duke of Leeds at Hornby Castle is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. I, p. 254, fig. 8.85.
The same patterned satyr mask also appears on a drawing-room armchair and a settee at Sandridgebury (Symonds, op. cit., figs. 11 and 12).

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