CIRCA 1795

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1795
Each with a turned toprail, crossbanded and line-inlaid tablet and horizontal trellis panel between reeded and downcurved arms, the caned seats with buttoned green watered-silk squab cushions, on tapering turned and reeded legs
32 in. (81 cm.) high; 21 ½ in. (55 cm.) wide; 21 ¾ in. (55.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Edward Hudson Esq. (1854-1936).

Literature

P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1924, vol. I, p. 258, fig. 171.
P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed. 1954, vol. I, p. 304, fig. 253.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Edward Hudson was the founder of Country Life magazine in 1897. His friend Edward Lutyens designed an Arts & Crafts house Deanery Garden at Sonning for him and later reconfigured the remote island castle at Lindisfarne, Northumberland.

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