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    Important English Furniture including Property from The Kersey Coats Reed House

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    • A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA
    Lot 213 | GALLERY AND STAIRCASE HALL Read more

    A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA

    LATE 18TH CENTURY, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS

    Price realised

    USD 19,200

    Estimate

    USD 7,000 - USD 10,000

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    A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA
    LATE 18TH CENTURY, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS
    The shaped serpenting back, outscolled arms and seat covered in claret velvet with patterned close-nailing, re-covered
    87½ in. (222 cm.) wide

    Provenance

    Acquired from Owen Evan-Thomas Ltd., London for £65 ($221) and shipped in January/February 1932 (listed by Frances Elkins on 24 February).

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    A. O. Patterson, 'On the High Bluffs of Lake Forest near Chicago', Town and Country, 15 January 1934, p. 25.
    S. M. Salny, The Country Houses of David Adler, 2001, p. 134.
    L. Goff, Stone Houses: Colonial to Contemporary, Boston, 2002, p.172.
    K. Coventry, D. Meyer and A. Miller, Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest, New York, 2003, p. 271.
    S. E. Cohen and S. S. Benjamin, North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburb 1890-1940, New York, 2004, p. 280.
    S. M. Salny, Frances Elkins: Interior Design, 2005, p. 64.


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