Live Auction 8999Colefax and Fowler, Then and Now: Collections From Hambleden Manor, Lushill, and 39 Brook Street, Mayfair
A GEORGE IV GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR
Lot 336

A GEORGE IV GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1820-30

Closed10 July 2013

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GBP 5,625

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A GEORGE IV GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1820-30
The scrolled padded back, arms and seat covered in green velvet, with panelled reeded frame and on rosette-headed fluted and lotus-carved tapering legs and castors, with plaque to the front inscribed THIS CHAIR, FORMERLY BELONGING TO VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON AT CAMBRIDGE HOUSE, WAS GIVEN TO HER GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, VISCOUNTESS HAMBLEDEN, BY THE DUKE OF PORTLAND, 1927, inscribed in pencil No 751
32 in. (81 cm.) high; 24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) wide

Emily Lamb (1787-1869), Countess Cowper and later wife of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), at Cambridge House, London.
Given by William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (1857-1943) in 1927 to Esther Georgiana Caroline Gore (1870-1955), wife of Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden, and by descent to
Maria Carmela, Viscountess Hambleden.

Specialist note

This sturdy pattern of French 'cabriolet' chair with flowered tablets, bold acanthus-scrolled enrichments and Doric-columned legs reflects the George IV style promoted by P. and M.A. Nicholson's The Practical Cabinet-Maker of 1826. The design relates in particular to one of their chair patterns illustrated in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 123.