A PAIR OF GEORGE III GREY AND BLUE-PAINTED OPEN ARMCHAIRS

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 105 - 123)

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GREY AND BLUE-PAINTED OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Each with an oval padded back, arms and bow-fronted seat covered in striped-green and cream silk with a flower and urn pattern, the moulded oval back decorated with twisted ribbon, with scrolled arm supports, the channelled seat-rail with trailing foliage flanked by carved anthemion on turned baluster tapering legs carved with long leaves, with batton carrying-holes, the decoration refreshed (2)

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Possibly commissioned by Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Bt. (d. 1796) for Bodysgallen Hall, Llandudno, North Wales.
Thence by descent until sold by the Trustees of the late Colonel H.R.H. Lloyd Mostyn and the Executors of the late J.L. Mostyn, Esq., Bodysgallen Hall, Llandudno, 20 July 1967, lot 18 (comprising two bergères, seven armchairs and a sofa).

拍品专文

The medallion-backed chairs, with palm-wrapped and acroteria-capped columnar legs, are designed in the French manner of the 1770s. They were possibly commissioned by Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet (d. 1796) for Bodysgallen, North Wales at the time of his marriage in 1776 to Margaret Wynne. They relate closely to a set of chairs thought to have been executed at this period for Langley Hall (now Park), Norfolk at the St. Martin's Lane workshops of Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) and his son Thomas Chippendale Junoir (d.1822). Four chairs of this set, which were illustrated in J. Fowler and J. Cornforth, English Decoration in the 18th Century, London, 2nd ed., 1978, fig. 137, were sold anonymously in these Rooms, 9 July 1992, lot 70.

A similar giltwood armchair is illustrated in C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, rev. ed., 1985, p. 68.