A LATE GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED, GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION SETTEE

The distinctive and unusual drapery-carved seat-rail of this elegant settee relates it to the work of the fashionable neo-classical architect James Wyatt (1746-1813), who in 1775 supplied a drapery-swagged white marble fireplace  to the tapestry drawing room at Goodwood House, and a further example in the 1790s to the 1st Earl of Belmore at Castle Coole, Ireland. A matching settee of slightly smaller size was sold from the Gutfreund collection, Christie’s, New York, 19-20 October 2011, lot 367 ($9375).