A GEORGE I WALNUT WING ARMCHAIR

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A GEORGE I WALNUT WING ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1720
The rectangular back with shaped head-rest, above outward scrolling arms, the padded back, arms, squab cushion and front edge of the seat covered in the original close-nailed black leather, the sides and back of the chair covered in original floral Turkey carpet, the shaped apron with red tassled edge, on cabriole legs with 'S' scrolls joined by curved stretchers, on pointed pad feet, the blocks and rails numbered, originally with a rear stretcher
48½ in. (123 cm.) high

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Olympia, 15 July 2003, lot 228.

Specialist note

A walnut armchair, but with squared cabriole legs inlaid with marquetry panels was in the collection of Percival D. Griffiths, F.S.A., Sandridgebury and illustrated in R. W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, London, 1929, p. 49, fig. 28.