Live Auction 14224The Collector: English Furniture, Clocks & Works of Art
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Lot 18 88 FULHAM ROAD, SOLD UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MICHAEL HUGHES LTD AND PETER LIPITCH LTD (LOTS 1-76)

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1775

Closed15 November 2017

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GBP 8,125

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1775
Each moulded cartouche-shaped padded back and serpentine padded seat covered in green silk, the back centred by double flowerheads, with part-padded scrolling arms, above waved seat-rail centred by double flowerheads above C-Scrolls, on moulded cabriole legs headed by blind fretwork, pegged
36 in. (91 cm.) high; 25 ½ in. (65 cm.) wide; 26 ½ in. (67.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

These elegantly-serpentined chairs, designed in the Louis XV manner, relate to the fashionable 'French' or 'cabriolet' chairs of the 1760s and 70s such as were illustrated by Thomas Chippendale in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1762, pl. XXIII, and Thomas Malton in his Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 1775, pl. XXXIII, fig. 131.