A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS

The Property of The LORD BROCKET WILL TRUST Sold by Order of the Trustees (Lots 357-360)

细节

A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

Each with inverted heart-shaped padded back carved with guilloche and headed by ribbon-tied laurel-swags, with padded arm-rests on beaded scrolled supports filled with laurel, the serpentine seat above a laurel-carved apron centred by a flowerhead, on rectangular blocks, reeded tapering legs and and stepped turned feet with opposing laurel and toupie bases, both with traces of original gilding and covered in pink floral silk, with exposed back struts, cramp-cuts and batten carrying-holes, one with later block (2)

来源

Supplied to Sir Penistone Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne (1748-1819), for the Saloon of Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, circa 1773
Thence by descent to Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, G.C.B., Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, sold Messrs. Foster house sale, 9 March 1923, lot 362
Acquired at that sale by Sir Charles Nall-Cain, Bt., 1st Lord Brocket (d.1934)
Thence by descent at Brocket Hall

出版

H. Avray Tipping, Country Life, vol. LVIII, 8 July 1925, p. 96
H. Avray Tipping, English Homes, Period VI, vol. I, London, 1926, pp. 19-21, figs. 30-31 and 33
C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 263 and vol. II, p. 11, fig. 21 and p. 109, fig. 186

拍品专文

The Brocket Saloon chairs conform suitably to what Christopher Gilbert has identified as the 'uniform character' of Chippendale's chair designs of the 1770s. Although he never repeated twice an exact decorative permutation, the basic arrangement of elements is common among most provenanced suites of this date. These chairs have the constructional features that have been identified as characteristic of the workshop, including the exposed back-struts, cramp-cuts and batten-holes (see: Gilbert, op. cit. vol. I, p. 41)