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A PAIR OF REGENCY GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Lot 261 WORKS OF ART FROM THE COLLECTION OF HUGH AND MARION SASSOON

A PAIR OF REGENCY GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1800

Closed8 June 2021

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GBP 16,250

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A PAIR OF REGENCY GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1800
Each with scrolled padded back and bowfront seat covered in duck-egg blue repp, the panelled arms with spirally-fluted terminals and on fluted scroll supports, on bearded satyr-mask headed sabre legs and hoof feet, one stamped H and inscribed E4260, the other inscribed in ink 'Docket No 2' (?), re-gilt
34 in. (86 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Purchased by Hugh Sassoon from Mallett & Son Antiques Ltd, 28 November 1957, £510.

Specialist note


A pair of armchairs of identical pattern but with entrelac-carved borders to the back, also previously with Mallett in the 1950s/1960s, was sold from the collection of the late Lord and Lady John Cholmondeley, Christie's, London, 13 November 2019, lot 268 (£12,500 inc. premium). A further pair was sold anonymously at Christie's, New York, 14 October 1989, lot 123 ($25,300 inc. premium), and another pair, plus two modern copies, was sold Sotheby's, New York, 16-17 April 1998, lot 898 ($43,125 inc. premium).