Live Auction 7746Parisian Taste in London: A Private Collection and Furniture
A PAIR OF BLACK PAINTED AND PARCEL GILT ARMCHAIRS
Lot 236 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 226 - 238)

A PAIR OF BLACK PAINTED AND PARCEL GILT ARMCHAIRS

20TH CENTURY, OF CHINESE CHIPPENDALE STYLE

Closed10 September 2009

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GBP 4,000

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A PAIR OF BLACK PAINTED AND PARCEL GILT ARMCHAIRS
20TH CENTURY, OF CHINESE CHIPPENDALE STYLE
The pagoda cresting above a symmetrical Chinese fret-carved back and arms and a padded seat upholstered in yellow cotton covers, on panelled, chamfered square legs
39½ in. (100 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 23 in. (59 cm.) deep (2)

Dudley Poplak, where acquired by the present owner, December 1985.

Specialist note

The chairs, fretted in the George III 'Chinese' manner, replicate chairs supplied in the eighteenth century to Badminton House, Gloucestershire, and japanned black and gold in the nineteenth century.