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Lot 122 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO SAUNDERS AND BRADSHAW, CIRCA 1750
Closed23 May 2013
Price Realised
GBP 4,750
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Specialist note
THE DRAWING ROOM 'PARLOUR CHAIR', RICHLY SCULPTED AND ELEGANTLY SERPENTINED IN THE 'FRENCH' MANNER, REFLECTS THE GEORGE II FASHION CALLED 'MODERN' IN THOMAS CHIPPENDALE'S, THE GENTLEMAN AND CABINET-MAKER'S DIRECTOR, 1754.
THEIR LEG PATTERN, OF ROMAN 'TRUSS' FORM ENRICHED WITH ROMAN ACANTHUS AND ANTIQUE FLUTES, WAS ADOPTED FOR CHAIRS SUPPLIED IN THE 1750S BY THE CELEBRATED CABINET-MAKERS AND TAPISSIERS, PAUL SAUNDERS AND GEORGE SMITH BRADSHAW (D. 1812).
A PAIR OF CHAIRS OF THE SAME PATTERN, AND BEARING THE LABEL 'LADY GLAMIS', was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 22 November 2007, lot 727 (£16,100 including premium).
Related chairs of this general pattern include chairs supplied in 1757 for Holkham Hall, Norfolk (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 378). Related legs feature on a suite of Beauvais tapestry-covered chairs commissioned by Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster (d. 1788) and on a pair of chairs from the collection of the Earls of Ancaster, Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, sold in these Rooms, 11 May 1934, lot 168. A pair of armchairs, possibly from the latter suite, was sold by the late Mrs Barbara Campbell-Golding, in these Rooms, 27 November 2003, lot 100 (£128,450).
THEIR LEG PATTERN, OF ROMAN 'TRUSS' FORM ENRICHED WITH ROMAN ACANTHUS AND ANTIQUE FLUTES, WAS ADOPTED FOR CHAIRS SUPPLIED IN THE 1750S BY THE CELEBRATED CABINET-MAKERS AND TAPISSIERS, PAUL SAUNDERS AND GEORGE SMITH BRADSHAW (D. 1812).
A PAIR OF CHAIRS OF THE SAME PATTERN, AND BEARING THE LABEL 'LADY GLAMIS', was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 22 November 2007, lot 727 (£16,100 including premium).
Related chairs of this general pattern include chairs supplied in 1757 for Holkham Hall, Norfolk (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 378). Related legs feature on a suite of Beauvais tapestry-covered chairs commissioned by Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster (d. 1788) and on a pair of chairs from the collection of the Earls of Ancaster, Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, sold in these Rooms, 11 May 1934, lot 168. A pair of armchairs, possibly from the latter suite, was sold by the late Mrs Barbara Campbell-Golding, in these Rooms, 27 November 2003, lot 100 (£128,450).