BY JOHN GEE, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF REGENCY GREEN PAINTED AND CANED ARMCHAIRS
BY JOHN GEE, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each with a bar top rail decorated with anthemion and rosette, with scrolled arms, squab cushion and sabre legs, each stamped under the front rail JG and to the backrail D, old repairs, the decoration probably original. (2)

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Lot Essay

John Gee is listed in directories from 1799 at 49 Wardour Street, Soho, he is frequently referred to as Chairmaker & Turner to His Majesty These chairs are typical of Gee's work and a large number of fashionable cane-seated beech chairs with painted finishes have been recorded. He often stamped his work although the mark varies, in this case he used the device of a small J within a large letter G. The stamp on the backrail is that of the journeyman chairmaker.
See Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996.

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