A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD SOFAS

CIRCA 1735 - 45

Price realised GBP 115,875
Estimate
GBP 80,000 – GBP 120,000
Closed: 4 Jul 2013
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD SOFAS

CIRCA 1735 - 45

Price realised GBP 115,875
Closed: 4 Jul 2013
Price realised GBP 115,875
Closed: 4 Jul 2013
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD SOFAS
CIRCA 1735 - 45
En suite with lot 34, each with outscrolled arms and three loose cushions, in pale green silk velvet covers, and with four scatter cushions in silk damask, on cabriole legs headed by eagles' heads and with shell and acanthus clasps, gadrooned cuffs and claw and ball feet, regilt, the centre back leg on each added or replaced, with subsidiary framing to arms and back associated with 19th century upholstery
Each 45.1.2 in. (116 cm.) high; 100 in. (254 cm.) wide; 41 in. (104 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Probably commissioned by Humphrey Sturt (d. 1786) for Horton, Dorset and moved to Crichel after 1765
and thence by descent at Crichel.
Literature
An Inventory of the Household Furniture, Plate and Plated Ware Linen, China and Glass, Books, Pictures & Prints, Wines and Liqueurs, Horses, Carriages, Harness and other Effects on the Premises Critchill House, Critchill, Dorsetshire, by Rushworth, Jarvis & Abbott, May 1866 ... No. 55.
Country Life, photographed in the East Hall at Crichel, Dorset.
Ralph Edwards, Dictionary of English Furniture, vol. III, London, 1954, p. 92, fig. 49.

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