A GEORGE II MAHOGANY LIBRARY OPEN ARMCHAIR

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY LIBRARY OPEN ARMCHAIR
The serpentine rectangular padded back, outcurved arms and seat covered in yellow floral material, the arms with scrolled-leaf carved terminals, on downswept channelled supports carved with acanthus and C-scrolls, above a shaped apron centred by a cabochon issuing trailing flowers, on channelled cabriole legs headed by foliage and scrolled feet, with later inner additional supports to three seat-rails, later blocks, one front foot tipped, restorations, previously with castors, the inside scroll of the back left-hand foot plain and that of the back right-hand foot possibly later carved

Lot Essay

The armchair, with its 'picturesque' serpentined frame and central cabochon within confronted scrolls, relates to a 'French' chair pattern illustrated in Thomas Chippendale's, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director, London, 1754, pl. XX. This central cartouche issuing fruit and flowers combined with serpentined legs terminating in acathus-wrapped volutes, features on Queen Charlotte's jewel-cabinet executed in 1761 by the court cabinet-makers William Vile and John Cobb of St. Martin's Lane (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 12).

A related pair of armchairs was sold by Guy van der Gucht, Esq., in these Rooms, 15 November 1990, lot 41.

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