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拍品专文
The cabriole armchairs are designed in the `French' style promoted by Thomas Chippendale and correspond to a pattern
published in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1762, pl.XIX. The leg design is closely related to the set of twelve blue leather-upholstered chairs supplied in 1757 by the Soho Square cabinet-maker and upholsterer Paul Saunders for Holkham Hall, Norfolk. The Holkham chairs were invoiced in June 1757 by Messrs. Saunders and Bradshaw and were richly carved to match 'a pattern chair' that had been supplied the previous year (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, p. 211, figs. 378-379 and J. Cornforth, 'French Style, English Mood', Country Life, 1 October 1992, p. 80, fig. 6).
The chairs offered here are assembled with unusually deep corner struts, or braces, a practice that came to be associated with the firm of Gillows of Lancaster, and which is illustrated in S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, p. 173. Stuart notes that the technique was certainly employed by the firm by 1775 if not before.
A pair of chairs of the same pattern and conceivably from the same set was sold anonymously Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1995, lot 58 (£47,700 including premium).
published in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1762, pl.XIX. The leg design is closely related to the set of twelve blue leather-upholstered chairs supplied in 1757 by the Soho Square cabinet-maker and upholsterer Paul Saunders for Holkham Hall, Norfolk. The Holkham chairs were invoiced in June 1757 by Messrs. Saunders and Bradshaw and were richly carved to match 'a pattern chair' that had been supplied the previous year (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, p. 211, figs. 378-379 and J. Cornforth, 'French Style, English Mood', Country Life, 1 October 1992, p. 80, fig. 6).
The chairs offered here are assembled with unusually deep corner struts, or braces, a practice that came to be associated with the firm of Gillows of Lancaster, and which is illustrated in S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, p. 173. Stuart notes that the technique was certainly employed by the firm by 1775 if not before.
A pair of chairs of the same pattern and conceivably from the same set was sold anonymously Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1995, lot 58 (£47,700 including premium).