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AN EARLY GEORGE II WALNUT READING CHAIR
Lot 89

AN EARLY GEORGE II WALNUT READING CHAIR

CIRCA 1740

Fermé14 September 2021

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GBP 16,250

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AN EARLY GEORGE II WALNUT READING CHAIR
CIRCA 1740
The toprail fitted with a brass rail (now lacking book-rest) above an original black leather seat, on cabriole legs and pad feet, restorations and rerailed
30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) dep

The Earls of Mansfield, Scone Palace and by descent.
Scone Palace and Blairquhan; sold Christie's, London, 24 May 2007, lot 243.

Note du spécialiste

This comfortable form of compass-fronted library-chair, with fitted book-rest (now lacking), relates to the celebrated seat associated with the poet John Gay (d.1732) and included in the 'author's chair' collection assembled by the architect George Godwin (d. 1888) (C. Graham, Ceremonial and Commemorative Chairs in Great Britain, Avon, 1994, p. 91, fig. 111).