Lot Essay
A related parlour chair pattern for a ribbon-scrolled back, with uprights interwoven with the splat, was issued in Robert Manwaring's, The Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion, 1765 (pl. 6).
Another armchair with serpentined back, acanthus-enriched splat and Linnell type arms in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London is illustrated in R. Edwards, A History of the English Chair, London, 1951, fig. 93. A pair of chairs with the same splat design was sold from the collection of the late Dr. Dallas Bache Pratt, Sotheby's New York, 20 January 1995, lot 116.
Another armchair with serpentined back, acanthus-enriched splat and Linnell type arms in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London is illustrated in R. Edwards, A History of the English Chair, London, 1951, fig. 93. A pair of chairs with the same splat design was sold from the collection of the late Dr. Dallas Bache Pratt, Sotheby's New York, 20 January 1995, lot 116.