Lot Essay
These Georgian 'cabriolet' armchairs are designed in the fashionable Louis XV manner promoted in Thomas Malton's Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 1775, pl. XXXIII, fig. 131.
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 210 - 211)
A SET OF SIX GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1775
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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1775
Each with a padded cartouche shaped back, channelled scrolled arms and a padded serpentine seat upholstered in buttoned pale green moiré cotton covers, the stop-fluted rails with oval sunflower paterae on anthemion-headed cabriole legs, pegged construction, redecorated
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 25 in.(64 cm.) deep (6)
CIRCA 1775
Each with a padded cartouche shaped back, channelled scrolled arms and a padded serpentine seat upholstered in buttoned pale green moiré cotton covers, the stop-fluted rails with oval sunflower paterae on anthemion-headed cabriole legs, pegged construction, redecorated
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 25 in.(64 cm.) deep (6)
Provenance
The Earls of Radnor, Longford Castle, Salisbury, Wiltshire, sold Christie's, London, 28 February 1963, lot 28.
Acquired from Mallett, London, August 1963, and then by descent.
Acquired from Mallett, London, August 1963, and then by descent.
Brought to you by
Elizabeth Wight
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