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PROPERTY FROM THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF JEFFREY BILHUBER
A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1770
Details
A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1770
Each with fluted oval back centered with a flower spray and upholstered in button tufted brown leather and flanked by molded out-scrolled arms, the caned bowed seat with a chocolate brown leather loose cushion above a flued apron centered with a rosette, on fluted circular tapering legs headed with rosettes, regilt, some chairs with evidence of prior blue-painted decoration (8)
CIRCA 1770
Each with fluted oval back centered with a flower spray and upholstered in button tufted brown leather and flanked by molded out-scrolled arms, the caned bowed seat with a chocolate brown leather loose cushion above a flued apron centered with a rosette, on fluted circular tapering legs headed with rosettes, regilt, some chairs with evidence of prior blue-painted decoration (8)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York 18 October 2005, lot 547.
Literature
M. Owens, 'Father Knows Best', Elle Decor, May 2007, pp. 160-165.