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A SUITE OF REGENCY BLACK-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT FURNITURE
A SUITE OF REGENCY BLACK-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT FURNITURE
A SUITE OF REGENCY BLACK-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT FURNITURE
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This lot will be removed to Christie’s Park Royal.… Read more PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE LORD AND LADY JOHN CHOLMONDELEY (LOTS 263 - 268)
A SUITE OF REGENCY BLACK-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT FURNITURE

BY AND ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN GEE, CIRCA 1805

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A SUITE OF REGENCY BLACK-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT FURNITURE
BY AND ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN GEE, CIRCA 1805
Comprising a set of six open armchairs, two matched armchairs and a triple chair back settee, each with lyre-form back, the toprail decorated with opposing griffins, above a caned seat and black squab cushion with gold-tone fringe supplied by David Hicks, on splayed ring-turned legs, the settee with brass caps and castors, seat distressed, the chairs variously stamped 'IC', 'WJ', 'J' and 'S', one stamped 'GEE' and 'IC', variations to the decoration within the suite
The armchairs: 32 ¾ in. (83 cm.) high; 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) wide; 19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep
The settee: 34 ¼ in. (87 cm.) high; 66 ¼ in. (168 cm.) wide; 27 ½ in. (70 cm.) deep
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon Bt (d. 1939), Trent Park, by descent to his sister,
Sybil, Marchioness Cholmondeley (d. 1989), Houghton Hall, Norfolk,
Lord John Cholmondeley (d. 1986), and thence by descent.
Literature
One corresponding chair stamped `GEE' and `IC' illustrated in C.Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p.219, fig. 382.
Ashley Hicks, 'Ashley Hicks Tours the Forgotten Apartments of Lord and Lady John Cholmondeley', Architectural Digest, accessed 11 March 2019.
Special notice
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Lot Essay


These japanned and light-framed chairs, designed in the French/antique fashion popularised around 1800 by the publications of Thomas Sheraton, relate in particular to the work of John Gee (fl. 1779-1824) of Wardour Street, 'Chairmaker and Turner in Ordinary to George III' (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, figs. 376-394). While few of his commissions are recorded, a number of chairs with his stamp are found, often accompanied by stamped initials probably struck by his journeymen. In 1802 Gillows manufactured a related chair with circular caned back called in their Estimate Sketch Book a 'Montgomery' pattern chair.

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