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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
(LOTS 200-209)
A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
BY MAYHEW AND INCE, CIRCA 1775
Details
A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
BY MAYHEW AND INCE, CIRCA 1775
En suite with the preceding lot, each with molded yellow silk brocade upholstered oval back centering a foliate spray flanked by padded out-scrolled arms with foliate-carved terminals and husk and leaf-carved supports over a serpentine seat covered in yellow silk brocade above an anthemion and scrolling floral vinery-carved apron, on square tapering legs carved with rosettes and trailing husks, on ormolu rosette-headed bun feet, the seatframes with ink 3 and 8 respectively and with cramp-cuts and batten holes, regilt, later casters (2)
BY MAYHEW AND INCE, CIRCA 1775
En suite with the preceding lot, each with molded yellow silk brocade upholstered oval back centering a foliate spray flanked by padded out-scrolled arms with foliate-carved terminals and husk and leaf-carved supports over a serpentine seat covered in yellow silk brocade above an anthemion and scrolling floral vinery-carved apron, on square tapering legs carved with rosettes and trailing husks, on ormolu rosette-headed bun feet, the seatframes with ink 3 and 8 respectively and with cramp-cuts and batten holes, regilt, later casters (2)
Provenance
Part of a larger suite, comprising eighteen armchairs and a pair of sofas supplied by Mayhew and Ince to John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley (d. 1781) for Cobham Hall, Kent.
Thence by descent at Cobham until after 1983.
Bought from Partridge, London in 1989.
Thence by descent at Cobham until after 1983.
Bought from Partridge, London in 1989.
Literature
C. Latham, In English Homes, London, 1909, vol. I, p. XI (eight chairs and a settee shown in situ in the Long Gallery).
J. Cornforth, 'Cobham Hall, Kent - III', Country Life, 10 March 1983, p. 571, figs. 11 and 12 (a sofa and armchair shown in situ in the Great [or 'Gilt'] Hall).
Partridge Summer Exhibition Catalogue, 1989, no. 19, pp. 56-57 (a set of eight armchairs).
J. Cornforth, 'Cobham Hall, Kent - III', Country Life, 10 March 1983, p. 571, figs. 11 and 12 (a sofa and armchair shown in situ in the Great [or 'Gilt'] Hall).
Partridge Summer Exhibition Catalogue, 1989, no. 19, pp. 56-57 (a set of eight armchairs).
Sale room notice
Please note that there is more information regarding the suite in the 1831 inventory at Cobham. The suite is most probably that located in the Picture Gallery listed as:
'Eighteen richly carved and gilt arm chairs stuffed with crimson damask
Four larger ditto stuffed in crimson damask
Four sofas to correspond
Three window stools to correspond'
The armchairs and settees in the sale (lots 200-202) are carved to the side rails which does not appear on the examples illustrated in the 1983 Country Life article. Thus this carving is either replaced or later in date.
'Eighteen richly carved and gilt arm chairs stuffed with crimson damask
Four larger ditto stuffed in crimson damask
Four sofas to correspond
Three window stools to correspond'
The armchairs and settees in the sale (lots 200-202) are carved to the side rails which does not appear on the examples illustrated in the 1983 Country Life article. Thus this carving is either replaced or later in date.