CIRCA 1755, ONE SIDE CHAIR OF LATER DATE

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A SET OF TEN GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
CIRCA 1755, ONE SIDE CHAIR OF LATER DATE
Comprising eight side chairs and a pair of armchairs, each with a waved toprail above a pierced interlaced splat, the arms with serpentine arms and shaped supports carved with foliage, above a padded drop-in seat covered in green silk floral damask, the seat-rail carved with C-scrolls, trellis and foliate-cartouches, on acanthus-carved cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet, the drop-in seat-frames original, seven with original webbing and scrim, one frame inscribed 'PAV' beside a naïve drawing of a house, another frame inscribed 'the elbow for York (?) [or] your', minor variations in carving
Side chairs: 38½ in. (98 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (60 cm.) deep
Armchairs: 38¾ in. (98.5 cm.) high; 26½ in. (67.5 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly commissioned for a house in Yorkshire.Property of a European Noble Family.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 February 1988, lot 71.
Private collection, UK.

荣誉呈献

Thomas Williams International Head of English Furniture & Clocks

展品专文

These finely carved dining chairs, with their pagoda hats, intricately carved interlaced splat and sinuous curves encapsulate the elegant fusion of the Rococo, 'Chinese' and 'Gothick' styles which peaked in the decorative arts in the middle of the 18th century. The distinctly pierced splat with carved rosettes of these chairs, along with their cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet, appear on a chair and a settee in the collection of W.H. Lever, illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 1911, vol. II, pp. 182-83. Furthermore, a set of six dining-chairs with a very similarly carved splat and acanthus-tipped top-rail supports was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 4 July 1997, lot 65.