AN ENGLISH GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR
Lot 165

AN ENGLISH GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR

POSSIBLY MID-18TH CENTURY

Closed24 April 2013

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AN ENGLISH GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR
POSSIBLY MID-18TH CENTURY
The serpentine entwined padded back and seat covered in gold velvet flanked by outscrolled arms, on acanthus-carved cabriole legs with dolphin feet

Property from the Collection of Ingrao; Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 2006, lot 70.

Specialist note

A related chair with dolphin feet, formerly part of the collection acclaimed of Sir George Donaldson, is illustrated in R. Edwards, ed., The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. edn.,1954, vol. I, p. 262, fig. 113 and later sold from the collection of Melvyn H. Rollason, Esq, Christie's, London, 17 November 1983, lot 63.