A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS

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细节

A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
Each with serpentine toprail and padded back and seat, two covered in pink foliate silk damask, two covered in plain pink material, on square legs carved with blind fretwork joined by square and faceted stretchers, with pierced angle-brackets, on leather castors, some angle-brackets replaced (4)

来源

Probably supplied to George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (d. 1775) and by descent at Ickworth to
The Marquess of Bristol and the Bristol Trustees, The East Wing, Ickworth, Suffolk, sold Sotheby's house sale, 11-12 June 1996, lot 102 (£25,300).

出版

The Antique Collector, 1961, p. 224-225.

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拍品专文

The chairs have their legs fretted with a lozenge-weave trellis that relates to Gothic patterns in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 1754, and so are likely to have been introduced to Ickworth, Suffolk by George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (d. 1775), who inherited the estate in 1751. The same frets and chamfered stretchers feature on a suite of seat furniture, comprising splat-back parlour chairs and a settee illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. II, 1911 (figs. 276 and 278).