Lot 197
Lot 197
CENTURIES OF TASTE: LEGACY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTION
A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1780

Price Realised USD 5,670
Estimate
USD 4,000 - USD 6,000
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1780

Price Realised USD 5,670
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Price Realised USD 5,670
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Each with arched channeled back carved with husk pendants and flowers, enclosing five turned spindles, with downswept arms above a padded dished seat, the fluted seat rails on turned tapering legs with fluted capitals, one stamped RF to underside of front rail, the other inscribed TJ55 / A in white chalk to underside of side rail, with differences in color and slight variations to carving
3512 in. (90.5 cm.) high, 2314 in. (59 cm.) wide, 2334 in. (60.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous Sale; Christie's, London, 14 June 2001, lot 112.
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Lot Essay

These chairs reflect the elegant French 'Cabriole' chair introduced around 1780, while their spindled balustrades evoke the romance of rural furniture associated with George III's Windsor (see Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788). Their spindled rods are reed-enriched in harmony with the 'antique' ornament of the back pilasters and arm-supports, which are flowered with Roman acanthus and antique-fluted like the ribbons banding the hollowed seat-rails and pillared legs. Certain features of the chairs can be related to hall chairs made by the St. Martin's Lane firm of Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1979, vol. II, p. 103, fig. 174).

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