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 red cut-velvet, the shaped rectangular back and open arms above a serpentine seat on scrolled, acanthus and cabochon-carved cabriole legs with scrolled feet, one labelled twice 'F 74', one side rail re-supported, one front rail partially refaced
37½ in. (95 cm.) high; 26½ in. (67 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep (2)

來源

Supplied to John Spencer, later 1st Earl Spencer (1734-83), probably for Spencer House, London, but possibly also for Wimbledon Park, Surrey or Althorp, Northamptonshire.
Thence by descent to Charles Robert, 6th Earl Spencer (1857-1922) at Spencer House, where one is recorded in Lord Spencer's Room ('The Palm Room') in 1916.
Thence by descent at Spencer House to Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), by whom moved to Althorp, Northamptonshire circa 1926 and thence by descent.

出版

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, no. 76, June 1968, pp. 440-451 and fig. 11

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These mahogany armchairs - originally from a set comprising at least four armchairs and ten side chairs - are designed in the 'French' taste after a pattern published in the first edition of Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl. XVII and XVIII. They were probably supplied by the Soho Square firm of Paul Saunders and share much of their character, in particular the curvaceous arm and the prominent cabochons on the legs, with a similar suite of furniture supplied to the Spencers and attributed to Saunders (see lots 35-37), whose workshops appear to have been well suited to making long sets of seat furniture, supplying extensive suites for Holkham, Norfolk, Petworth, Sussex and Longleat, Wiltshire in the 1750s.

With their sinuous arm supports and pronounced curve at the top of the leg the chairs relate to an example illustrated in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam amd Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 90, no. 77.