A GEORGE II MAHOGANY DOUBLE-CHAIRBACK SETTEE

CIRCA 1745, IN THE MANNER OF GILES GRENDEY, THE SEATRAILS RE-FACED

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY DOUBLE-CHAIRBACK SETTEE
CIRCA 1745, IN THE MANNER OF GILES GRENDEY, THE SEATRAILS RE-FACED
With shell cresting and pierced splats above outscrolled arms, the later drop-in seat covered in blue fabric, on acanthus-capped cabriole legs, with a paper label inscribed in ink Birley and a partial paper label inscribed HI..., originally with a drop-in seat and converted by Griffiths in the 1920s to an over-upholstered seat, re-converted back to the original
50 in. (127 cm.) wide

來源

Percival D. Griffiths, Esq., Sandridgebury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire.

出版

H. A. Tipping, English Furniture of the Cabriole Period, London, 1922, pl. XV (with needlework-covered drop-in seat).
R. W. Symonds, The Present State of Old English Furniture, New York, n.d., fig. 81 (with drop-in seat, same needlework as in 1922 photo; collection of Griffiths).
P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1927, vol. III, p. 94, fig 30 (over-upholstered seat; collection of Griffiths).
H. Cescinski, The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture, London, 1931, pl. XV (drop in seat, different needlework).
R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Suffolk, 1954, vol. III, p. 84, fig. 31.
R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 449, fig. 23.

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This settee belonged to Percival Griffiths whose extraordinary eye has made his collection a benchmark for connoisseurs. While the settee does not appear in any of his public auctions, other collectors such as J. S. Sykes and Frederick Poke were able to buy pieces directly from Griffiths in the 1930s, probably through their shared advisor R.W. Symonds. The settee is variously illustrated in publications in the 1920s and 1930s, first showing in 1922 in the Griffiths collection with a drop-in seat. By the time The Dictionary of English Furniture is published in 1927, the settee is still in the Griffiths collection, but over-upholstered. The re-conversion to drop-in seat appears to have taken place by 1931 when the settee is again published (no owner cited).

The scroll crest, leg profile and carved apron relates to the labeled furniture of Clerkenwell maker Giles Grendey (d. 1780) (see C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp. 240 and 242, figs. 432 and 435).

CIRCA 1745, IN THE MANNER OF GILES GRENDEY, THE SEATRAILS RE-FACED

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