A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
From the Collection of the late Lord Forte (Lots 1 - 2)
A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1745-55

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1745-55
En suite with the previous lot, each with a shaped rectangular padded back with gadrooned border and scrolled acanthus-carved terminals, above scrolled acanthus-carved arms and a padded seat on scrolled X-shape front supports, centred by a shell and bell-flower cartouche and joined to cabriole rear legs by a conforming X-stretcher, each with blue-bordered paper label with red printed text 'THE PROPERTY OF MRS. I. M. SIEFF', one chair marked to the rear rail X the other XI
Chair X: 38½ in. (98 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 24 in. (63 cm.) deep
Chair XI: 38¾ in (98.5 cm.) high; 24¾ in. (62.5 cm.) wide; 24½ in. (62 cm.) deep (2)
來源
Probably Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford, either for Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, or for 16 Grosvenor Street, London, and thence by descent.
Israel Sieff, Brook House, London in 1936 (a set of ten).
Sir Charles Forte, Chester House, London, acquired from Jeremy Ltd., 16 June 1972 (a set of four).
出版
Pauline C. Metcalf, Syrie Maugham, New York, 2010, pp.221 - 225, illus. p.225.

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Elizabeth Wight
Elizabeth Wight

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These chairs, en suite with the previous lot, are probably from the set delivered to the 1st Earl of Hertford, around 1745 - 55. The interiors at Ragley were completed by the architect James Gibbs (d.1754) in the early 1750s, work on the shell of the house having started some 70 years earlier. Gibbs' Great Hall at Ragley has been described as 'one of the the greatest Baroque interiors in England'. They are likely to have been supplied by the skilled and prolific cabinet-maker William Hallett Snr. (d.1781) on the basis of their close similarity to chairs and a sofa at Langley Park, Norfolk. Some chairs from the suite remained at Ragley where they were photographed in the Billiards Room in the second half of the 20th century.
From 1935 ten of the chairs were in the collection of Israel (d.1972) and Rebecca Sieff (d.1966), at their Brook House apartment, one of London's most stylish addresses, decorated by the legendary Syrie Maugham with a blend of the traditional and Art Deco.

For further information see note to previous lot.

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