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Lot 186 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 186 - 194)
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR
AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1755
Closed23 May 2013
Price Realised
GBP 30,000
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Specialist note
The design for this armchair is based on a drawing for a 'French Chair' first published by Thomas Chippendale (d.1779), in his Director of 1754. The design's popularity endured and it remained in the third edition of 1762, pl.XXI, where Chippendale describes how this chair type is intended 'to be open below at the Back: which makes them very light, without having a bad Effect' (op.cit, p.4).
An armchair with a similar cartouche-shaped back is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, illustrated in The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture (R. Edwards, 1964, p.151, fig.136), and Chippendale Furniture (A. Coleridge, 1968, fig.179). A pair of armchairs of this pattern was exhibited by Hyde Park Antiques at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, London, 1990.
An armchair with a similar cartouche-shaped back is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, illustrated in The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture (R. Edwards, 1964, p.151, fig.136), and Chippendale Furniture (A. Coleridge, 1968, fig.179). A pair of armchairs of this pattern was exhibited by Hyde Park Antiques at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, London, 1990.