拍品 59
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A SET OF FOUR LATE GEORGE II MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS with arched pierced backs carved with quatrefoils, rockwork and flowerheads, the shaped solid seats on cabriole legs joined by turned stretchers, all with repairs to back, one with seat split and repaired, one with one leg plugged

细节
A SET OF FOUR LATE GEORGE II MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS with arched pierced backs carved with quatrefoils, rockwork and flowerheads, the shaped solid seats on cabriole legs joined by turned stretchers, all with repairs to back, one with seat split and repaired, one with one leg plugged
The seats 17½in. (44.5cm.) wide; the backs 36in. (91cm.) high (4)
来源
The Viscountess Davenport, Peasmarsh Place, Peasmarsh, East Sussex
Bought from Bragge & Sons, Rye, 1 October 1986, for #7000

拍品专文

The rustic wooden saddle-seated garden chair, with spindle-linked legs and fret back in the gothic manner, relates to Windsor or stick chairs such as that illustrated in R. Edwards, English Chairs, London, 1950, fig. 79. This chair-back with flowers and festoon drapery framing an open escutcheon, which may have been intended to display a coat-of-arms, such as those illustrated in Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd. edn., 1763, pl.XVIII, and appears on hall chairs such as those at Wilton House, Salisbury, which may have been provided by Thomas Chippendale (see: A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 190)