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A PAIR OF REGENCY GILTMETAL-MOUNTED GRAINED OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with padded tablet back, arms and seat covered in pale brown wool, with scrolled panelled frame and arms inset with flowerheads, on turned tapering fluted legs headed by paterae, lacking castors (2)

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A PAIR OF REGENCY GILTMETAL-MOUNTED GRAINED OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with padded tablet back, arms and seat covered in pale brown wool, with scrolled panelled frame and arms inset with flowerheads, on turned tapering fluted legs headed by paterae, lacking castors (2)

拍品专文

This type of Franco-Grecian chair is linked with the architect Henry Holland and the two cabinet-making firms of Morel & Hughes and Marsh & Tatham. Both firms supplied furniture to George, Prince of Wales, for Carlton House and were fashionable amongst his francophile circle of friends. The group is large and the same aspects of design recur in various conbinations. This particular model is a combination of the Southill chairs supplied to Samuel Whitbread II under the direction of Henry Holland and after designs by George Jacob (see: F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 44, illustrated) and those supplied to 1st Earl of Harewood, Harewood House, Hanover Square (one of which was sold by the present Earl of Harewood in these Rooms, 15 November 1990, lot 48). Both the aforementioned firms worked at Southill and Harewood House, London (see: Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, Leeds, 986, pp. 279, 623)