MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II WALNUT SIDE CHAIR
MID-18TH CENTURY
The rectangular padded back and seat with a later petit-point needlework cover decorated with birds and foliage, on cabriole legs headed by flowered trellis, on pad feet with scrolling foliage, the front seat rail with chalk inscription '246'

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拍品专文

The George II drawing-room chair, with tablet-back designed for the contemporary 21" width Italian damask, has its truss-scrolled columnar legs enriched with palm-wrapped lambrequin drapery, whose mosaic of flowered trellis recalls the ornament of Rome's temple of Venus as featured in the Italian patterns issued in Gaetano Brunetti's, Sixty Different Sorts of Ornament (1736).
A pair of George II walnut side chairs of identical design was sold from the Estate of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, Christie's, New York, 18 March 2005, lot 120 ($40,800).
A set of chairs with related acanthus-wrapped pad feet was acquired in 1948 from the Cecil Partridge collection at Levensbrow, Westmorland and was sold by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Sotheby's, New York, 12-14 April 1984, lot 767.