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AN EARLY GEORGE II WALNUT READING CHAIR
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AN EARLY GEORGE II WALNUT READING CHAIR

CIRCA 1740

细节
AN EARLY GEORGE II WALNUT READING CHAIR
CIRCA 1740
The toprail fitted with a brass rail (now lacking book-rest) above a leather seat on cabriole legs, restorations, the back legs resupported to the underside
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拍品专文

This comfortable form of compass-fronted library-chair, with fitted book-rest (now lacking), relates to the celebrated seat associated with the poet John Gay (d.1732) and included in the 'author's chair' collection assembled by the architect George Godwin (d. 1888) (C. Graham, Ceremonial and Commemorative Chairs in Great Britain, Avon, 1994, p,91 fig. 111).