Live Auction 16270The Collector: English and European 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A GEORGE II WALNUT SIDE CHAIR
Lot 273 PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTOR

A GEORGE II WALNUT SIDE CHAIR

ATTRIBUTED TO GILES GRENDEY, CIRCA 1730

Closed23 October 2018

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A GEORGE II WALNUT SIDE CHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO GILES GRENDEY, CIRCA 1730
With carved paterae and scrolling foliage on the upper part of the splat, the compass seat covered in associated 18th century gros and petit-point needlework, on hipped cabriole legs with scrolling acanthus knees terminating in hairy paw feet, stamped WH to the reverse of the seat rail

With Mallett.

Specialist note

The present chair is related to a set of six in the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the celebrated Clerkenwell cabinet-maker and upholsterer Giles Grendey (d. 1780), two of which carry labels 'GILES GRENDEY, In St. John's-Square, Clerkenwell, LONDON, Makes and Sells all Sorts of Cabinet- Goods, Chairs and Glasses' (illustrated C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 242, fig. 434).
The stamp WH is probably for William House, employed by Grendey from April 14, 1747 (G. Beard and C. Gilbert, eds., Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, pp. 371-372). A number of chairs from Grendey's workshop bear the stamp of his journeymen - and indeed the WH stamp appears on numerous chairs of known Grendey models.