A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1760

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY ARMCHAIRS
circa 1760
Each with serpentine padded back, armrests and seat upholstered in green velvet with outscrolled channeled foliate-carved arms, on straight chamfered and channeled legs, carved with ruffled cabochons and headed by pierced double-scrolled brackets with leaf tip-carved feet on casters, back feet tipped, one with missing left back bracket (2)

来源

Bought from Stair & Company Inc., New York in 1954

拍品专文

A card table with the same cabochon molded legs, and possibly en suite with the chairs is illustrated in M.Harris & Sons, An Abridged Introductory Catalogue of Antique Furniture and Works of Art, n.d., p.77. A settee also with identically carved legs was sold from the collection of Perry Ellis, Sotheby's New York, 24 January 1987, lot 73 and again, 23 September 1989, lot 226.