LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each with fluted medallion padded back and serpentine seat, the arms covered in later Bargello-pattern woolwork, and with fluted serpentine supports, the side chairs covered in a pink-orange velvet, above a fluted seat-rail, on square tapering fluted legs headed by paterae, on block feet, redecorated, pegged construction, with batten-carrying holes, minor variations
37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 24½ in. (62 cm.) wide; 18 in. (35.5 cm.) deep (6)

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Lot Essay

These elegant side chairs, en suite with the previous armchairs, with light French 'cabriolet' and white-painted frames, have their Roman-medallion backs enriched with golden antique-flutes like the hermed pilaster legs and the rails, whose corner tablets are sculpted with bas-relief and 'Apollo' sunflowered libation-patera. Similar chairs, also with palm-lapped arms were provided in the 1770s for the architect Robert Adam's Pantheonic rotunda at Kedleston, Derbyshire by the Berkeley Square cabinet-maker John Linnell (d.1796) (see E. Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam, London, 2001, p. 39, fig. 52).

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