Live Auction 7663Fasque The Scottish Seat of the Gladstones
A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SOFAS
Lot 40

A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SOFAS

CIRCA 1820-1830

Closed7 May 2008

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GBP 17,300

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SOFAS
CIRCA 1820-1830
With scroll arms and leaf-clasp legs, both indistinctly inscribed in pencil on the seat rail 'LOUGH', with apparently original webbing
98 in. (241 cm.) wide (2)

Specialist note

The Grecian-scrolled Drawing Room sofas, conceived as Roman triclineum couches and raised on palm-flowered stump feet, relate to George Smith's 1805 designs for a 'Chaise Longue' and a 'French Bed …for an elegant apartment' (G. Smith, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1808, (pls. 29 and 98).