CIRCA 1735

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A GEORGE I WALNUT SIDE CHAIR
CIRCA 1735
With shell cresting above a vasiform bellflower-carved splat, the drop-in seat upholstered in green floral cut-velvet, on foliate-carved legs, white museum accession number

Provenance

Gift of Mrs. Laurance H. Armour, 1969.

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Lot Essay

An armchair of the same model was sold from the Van Cliburn Collection, Christie's, New York, 17 May 2012, lot 112 ($35,000) which appears to be the 'mahogany' example illustrated in P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture: The Age of Mahogany, London, 1906, p. 62, fig. 51.

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