Live Auction 16217The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection Sale
A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Lot 588

A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY OPEN ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1765

Closed7 December 2018

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GBP 37,500

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1765
Each with rectangular padded back, with down swept arm-supports and on square legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, on Regency brass caps and castors, repairs to feet, one back seat-rail inscribed in pencil 'Green room, Lord Bolton', minor differences
39 in. (99 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81 cm.) deep

Supplied to Charles, 5th Duke of Bolton (d.1765) for Hackwood Park.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood Park to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954).
Thence by descent until sold Christie's house sale, 20-22 April 1998, lot 114.
Acquired from Axel Vervoordt N. V., ‘S-Gravenwezel, Belgium, 1999.

Specialist note

Lots 588 and 589 were among a group of similar armchairs and side chairs, supplied to Hackwood Park in the early 1760s. See Hackwood Park, Christie's house sale; 20-22 April 1998, lot 114.15, 16, 113, 115, 297-299. The side chairs were distributed in groups of four around the principal bedrooms and each group was accompanied by an 'elbow ditto', such as the present examples. The slight differences in the size and construction of the present chairs and the others sold in the Hackwood sale are thus explained by their being intended to be used only in small groups in each bedroom.