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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY ARMCHAIR
Lot 286

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY ARMCHAIR

IN THE MANNER OF WRIGHT & ELWICK, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE FRONT LEGS PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY, THE NEEDLE POINT TAPESTRY 18TH CENTURY

Fermé4 June 2008

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GBP 3,500

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY ARMCHAIR
In the manner of Wright & Elwick, mid-18th century, the front legs probably 19th century, the needle point tapestry 18th century
The rectangular padded back arms and seat upholstered needlepoint tapestry, with S-scroll arm-supports, on later reeded and cartouche-carved square section legs and brackets, joined by stretchers and castors, restorations

Note du spécialiste

This chair, follows the 'French' form as interpreted by Thomas Chippendale in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director of 1754, plate XIX. Related chairs of this French 'Easy Chair' form were supplied in the mid-1760s to Corsham Court, Wiltshire, (G. Beard, Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, London, 1997, figs. 306-8). This pattern of voluted arm also features on similar chairs, but lacking the Gothic-fretted stretchers, at Southill, Bedfordshire (R. Edwards and P. Maquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, revised edition, 1954, Vol. I, p. 277). The same reeded-leg pattern, enriched with a bubbled ribbon-guilloche, features on chairs at Swinton, Yorkshire (sold by the Earl of Swinton and the Hon. Nicholas Cunliffe-Lister, Swinton House, Yorkshire, Christie's House Sale, 20-21 October 1975, lot 17). A pair of similar chairs, without stretchers, was sold Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 October 1999, lot 418).