ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL SAUNDERS, CIRCA 1755-60

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL SAUNDERS, CIRCA 1755-60
Each with padded back, arms and seat covered in blue serge, the shaped rectangular back above outscrolled arms with foliate-wrapped ball terminals and cabochon, C-scroll and rockwork supports, the serpentine seat with waved and acanthus-centred rails, on cabriole legs headed by C-scrolls and foliage and with scrolled feet and brass and leather castors, one with batten carrying-holes, slight differences in scale of carving
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 28½ in (72 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68 cm.) deep (2)

來源

Supplied to John Spencer, later 1st Earl Spencer (1734-83), probably for Spencer House, London, but possibly for Wimbledon Park, Surrey or Althorp, Northamptonshire.
By descent to John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910) at Althorp where photographed in the Picture Gallery in 1909, and by family descent.

出版

H. Avray Tipping, 'Althorp, I', Country Life, 11 June 1921, one photographed in the Picture Gallery. H. Avray Tipping, 'Furniture at Althorp, I', Country Life, 11 June 1921, pp. 721 - 722 and fig. 3
Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), Althorp, Furniture, Vol. I, circa 1937 and later
P. Thornton and J. Hardy, 'The Spencer Furniture at Althorp, Section II: James Stuart's neo-Classical furniture from Spencer House and the work of Gordon the chair-maker', Apollo, vol. LXXXVII, no. 76, June 1968, p. 445, fig. 10, and p. 448

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Originally from a set of five, of which three remain at Althorp, these mahogany armchairs are designed in the 'French' taste first popularised in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl. XVIII - XIX. With their distinctive complimentary design of the front and side rails in the French tradition, as well as the marked curvature of the legs and the Roman acanthus foliage issuing from water-bubbled cartouches, they are probably from the same workshop as the other Spencer mahogany suites attributed to Paul Saunders. Saunders had formed a partnership around 1751 with George Smith Bradshaw and possibly also his brother William Bradshaw, establishing workshops in Soho Square, London. He worked extensively at Petworth House, Sussex from 1748, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, Holkham, Norfolk and at Longleat, Somerset. Like some of Holkham's drawing-room chairs and the Longleat library writing-table also attributed to Saunders, the present chairs are enriched in 'Director' fashion, with prominently displayed Roman foliage issuing from reeded and water-bubbled cartouches.

Several chairs of closely related form, undoubtedly executed in the same workshop and possibly all from the same set originally but differing slightly in detail to the present chairs, are known. One was sold from the collection of H.J. Joel, Christie's house sale, Childwick Bury, Hertfordshire, 15 May 1978, lot 62, while a pair from the collection of Captain M.F. Buller, Crediton, Devon, were sold at Sotheby's, London, 15th November 1985, lot 89.