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A SET OF TWELVE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING CHAIRS
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A SET OF TWELVE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING CHAIRS

ONE ARMCHAIR AND FIVE SIDE CHAIRS GEORGE III, CIRCA 1780, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL, THE OTHERS OF LATER DATE

Fermé8 April 2021

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A SET OF TWELVE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING CHAIRS
ONE ARMCHAIR AND FIVE SIDE CHAIRS GEORGE III, CIRCA 1780, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL, THE OTHERS OF LATER DATE
Comprising four armchairs and eight side chairs, each oval padded back and serpentine seat upholstered in mint colored leather within a ribbon-tied frame crested by a rosette and bow on fluted turned tapering legs and toupie feet

Note du spécialiste


The present suite of dining chairs were designed by London cabinet-maker, John Linnell (d.1796). His sketch for this model is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum and reflects the French antique style of the early 1770s. Their design, with acanthus-supported medallion backs, Grecian-scrolled arms with acanthus-wrapped cabochons and imbricated-paterae embellishing the hermed front legs is directly inspired by a prototype French chair-pattern executed by the menuisier Jean-Baptiste Boulard (maître in 1755) and illustrated in M. Jarry, Le Siège Français, Fribourg, 1973, p. 203, figs. 195-6. The distinctive leaf clasped arm terminal is also seen on a giltwood canapé by Claude Sené I from the Jack and Belle Linsky collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1982.60.71).

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