CIRCA 1780

Details

A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SETTEE
CIRCA 1780
The shaped flower-carved back, scrolled arms and seat upholstered in floral silk, on fluted legs
68 ¾ in. (173.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 25 April 1986, lot 62.
With Stair & Company, New York.
[Possibly] Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 1 February 1992, lot 312 (a settee and four armchairs).
Acquired from Partridge, London.

Literature

Partridge, Recent Acquisitions 1995, no. 21, pp. 52-53.

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Lot Essay

This settee originally formed part of a larger suite of furniture, including three settees and four armchairs owned by Partridge in 1995. A virtually identical suite remains in the Drawing Room at Brodsworth Hall, Yorkshire, now the property of the English Heritage. A related suite of shield-form armchairs settees (together with a pair of candle stands) was supplied by Wyatt for the Drawing Room of Broome Park, Kent, in circa 1778 when the interiors were re-modelled for Sir Henry Oxenden, Bart. This suite appears in a photograph of the Drawing Room in a Country Life article of 6 July 1907, p.20.

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