A GEORGE II WALNUT ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1745

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A GEORGE II WALNUT ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1745
The pierced rectangular back with a vase-shaped splat and molded out-curved arms with scroll terminals, on shaped supports above a padded drop-in seat covered in white silk damask, on scrolled X-frame front supports centered by a scallop shell, on pad feet and joined by a Y-form stretcher, the seatrail inscribed in red chalk B439
40 in. (102 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired from Stair & Company, New York.

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Lot Essay

Another walnut chair of this model in the Untermyer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York is illustrated in J. Gloag and Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with Some Furniture of Other Countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1958, pl. 55. A further Chinese padouk example made for export was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 23 April 1998, lot 214. The tradition of copying English prototypes can be be illustrated in another direct parallel from the same period (see E. Lennox-Boyd, ed., Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, p. 80, figs. 58 an 59).

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