A PAIR OF GEORGE III POLYCHROME-PAINTED SATINWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
A PAIR OF GEORGE III POLYCHROME-PAINTED SATINWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1785

细节
A PAIR OF GEORGE III POLYCHROME-PAINTED SATINWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Circa 1785
Each with floral and foliate decoration throughout, with arched toprail over a splayed pierced central splat and shaped spindles with outswept arms on squared columnar form supports with caned seat and squab cushion with turned tapered legs, one with stencilled number 18290 the other with the same number in pencil (2)
来源
Mrs. Henry Russell.
Purchased (as a set of four chairs) by French and Company, Inc., New York from the above in 1934.
Acquired from French and Company, Inc., New York in 1968.

拍品专文

A satinwood chair of this design with carved rather than painted details is illustrated in P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture: The Age of Satinwood, London, 1908, sol pl.VII.