CIRCA 1740

Details

AN EARLY GEORGE II WALNUT READING CHAIR
CIRCA 1740
The toprail fitted with a brass rail (now lacking book-rest) above an original black leather seat, on cabriole legs and pad feet, restorations and rerailed
30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) dep

Provenance

The Earls of Mansfield, Scone Palace and by descent.
Scone Palace and Blairquhan; sold Christie's, London, 24 May 2007, lot 243.

Literature

R. Guilding, ‘Jasper Wares’, World of Interiors, April 2021, illustrated p. 159.

Special notice

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Benedict Winter Associate Director, Specialist

Lot Essay

This comfortable form of compass-fronted library-chair, with fitted book-rest (now lacking), relates to the celebrated seat associated with the poet John Gay (d.1732) and included in the 'author's chair' collection assembled by the architect George Godwin (d. 1888) (C. Graham, Ceremonial and Commemorative Chairs in Great Britain, Avon, 1994, p. 91, fig. 111).

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