Each with a serpentine toprail carved with repeating acanthus-leaf motif and crested by a rocaille cabochon, the seat-rails carved with scrolling foliate motifs, on cabriole legs headed by cabochons and with scrolled feet, the seats and backs covered in floral tapestry
41. 3/4 in. (106 cm.) high; 24. 1/2 in. (62 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Alan.P. Good sold Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1953, lot 275 (three including the armchair)
With Phillips of Hitchin.

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These Drawing Room 'parlour chairs', richly sculpted and elegantly serpentined in the 'French' manner, reflect the George II fashion called 'Modern' in Thomas Chippendale's, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754.
Their leg pattern, of Roman 'truss' form enriched with Roman acanthus and antique flutes, was adopted for chairs supplied in the 1750s by the celebrated cabinet-makers and tapissiers, Paul Saunders and George Smith Bradshaw (d. 1812). Related chairs of this general pattern include chairs supplied in 1757 for Holkham Hall, Norfolk (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 378).