A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SETTEES

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The following three lots are known to have been brought to Nantlys from the neighbouring house at Brynbella and therefore would have been supplied to Mrs Piozzi in the 1790s. The side chairs are stamped by John Gee (1779-c.1824), who ran a large chairmaking firm in Wardour Street.

A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SETTEES

BY JOHN GEE, LATE 18TH CENTURY, RE-DECORATED

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SETTEES
BY JOHN GEE, LATE 18TH CENTURY, RE-DECORATED
Each with a rectangular back, the arms filled with Chinese paling and on ring-turned legs, one inscribed in ink '4171P', one lacking castors, both with traces of earlier black-and-gilt and blue-and-green decoration, with squab cushions
73 in. (185 cm.) wide (2)

来源

Supplied to Mrs Hester Piozzi (1741-1821), Brynbella, and by descent to
The Rev. George Salusbury, by whom sold to
Philip Pennant (d.1910) and by descent.

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