Live Auction 16217The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection Sale
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN LIBRARY ARMCHAIR
Lot 589

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN LIBRARY ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1765

Closed7 December 2018

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GBP 6,875

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN LIBRARY ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1765
The rectangular back, arm-rests and seat covered in woven material, on square legs joined by a box stretcher and on Regency brass castors, the front seat-rail replaced
41 ½ in. (105.5 cm.) high; 27 ¾ in. (70.5 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep

Supplied to Charles, 5th Duke of Bolton (d. 1765) for Hackwood Park.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d. 1954).
Thence by descent until sold Hackwood Park; Christie's, 20-22 April 1998, lot 115.
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.