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

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS
BY JOHN GEE, LATE 18TH CENTURY, RE-DECORATED
En suite with the preceding lot, each with ivory damask-covered squab-cushion, one stamped 'W.P.' (2)

Provenance

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.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The stamp 'W.P.' is presumably that of a craftsman working in John Gee's workshop. It is also recorded on a suite of chairs and settees in a private house in Monmouthshire (C. Gilbert and G. Beard, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, p. 334).
The flanked oval motif of the back recurs in Gee's work, with the central oval usually cane-filled, as on a set of chairs sold at Christie's New York, 9 October 1993, lot 118, which are illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1986, p. 222, fig. 392.

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