A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III PAINTED ARMCHAIRS
A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III PAINTED ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1800

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A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III PAINTED ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1800
Each with trellis and fringe-decorated scrolling tablet top-rail and pierced lozenge splat, the bowed padded seat covered in later pink velvet, on turned tapering legs decorated with tassel swags, remnants of a paper label to the rail of one chair: K CLIFT..., each chair stamped TF, extensive refreshments to decoration
33 in. (84 cm.) high (2)
來源
Purchased from Mallett on 23 September 1959 for £400 by Sir Michael Sobell.
Sold by his Executors, Christie's London, 23 June 1994, lot 162.
出版
Country Life, 9 April 1959, Mallett adverisment

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Victoria von Westenholz
Victoria von Westenholz

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This pattern of chair with columnar supports and scrolled tablet derives from French chairs of the end of the 18th Century. The type was certainly produced by Gillows of Lancaster whose pattern book illustrates a very similar example, see I. Hall, 'The Gillows Furniture Designs-II', Country Life, 15 June 1978, fig. 8.

A set of white-painted and parcel-gilt chairs with the same distinctive drapery-and-lozenge backs are illustrated in M. Jourdain and F. Rose, English Furniture, The Georgian Period (1750-1830), London, 1953, p. 63, pl. 16.

When included in the Mallet advertisment of 9 April 1959, the set comprised seven armchairs. The present pair was sold with a sofa as the consecutive lot of the late Sir Michael Sobell's sale in 1994.

A paint analysis undertaken by Catherine Hassall of University College London showed that the decoration visible today is original, though with extensive restorations.