19TH CENTURY

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A NEAR PAIR OF MAHOGANY WINDSOR ARMCHAIRS
19TH CENTURY
Each with arched back with two rows of turned baluster spindles above serpentine arms and a solid saddle seat, on cabriole legs with pad feet, one stamped '11228D', with painted inscription now covered by a block '...E' [Lane?], the other inscribed in pencil '123073' and stamped '152', one with a tan leather squab cushion
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 29 in. (73.5 cm.) wide; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep (2)

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

This Doric patterned hall chair, with pillared triumphal arches, was conceived in the George II 'Roman' fashion follows the pattern of robust hall chairs that were supplied to Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (d.1759) for the South Hall, beneath the temple-pedimented portico, of Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Today some of the Holkham chairs are displayed in its Marble Hall (L. Schmidt et al, Holkham, Munich, 2005, plate II, p. 23). Some Holkham furniture was replicated by firms such as Messrs. Lenygon & Morant of Old Bond Street, and the high quality of these chairs may indicate manufacture by them.

A closely related armchair but with scrolled arm terminals and saddle seat with shallow 'fin' pommel was sold anonymously at Mallam's, Oxford, 26 May 2004 (£28,000 including premium).