IN THE GEORGE III STYLE, 19TH CENTURY

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A GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR
IN THE GEORGE III STYLE, 19TH CENTURY
With cartouche-shaped back, serpentine padded seat and arm-supports upholstered in green damask, the back a chassis, with fluted seat rail, on cabriole legs and scroll feet, the front corner brackets inside of the seat rail stamped 'G.T.'

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Lot Essay

The pattern for this elegant French fashioned 'Easy Chair' for Drawing Rooms, with pearled and Grecian-fluted frames flowered in palm, appears to have been invented around 1760 for Spencer House, London, under the direction of the artist/architect James 'Athenian' Stuart (d.1792). It was introduced at the same time for the Drawing Room at Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire, which Stuart was then decorating for Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt (d.1777). The latter suite illustrated in situ in Country Life, 29 November 1913; and the former is discussed by J. Friedman, Spencer House, London, 1993, p. 254.

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