拍品 97
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A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS, each with slightly arched rectangular padded back, arm-rests and bowed seat covered in green velvet, the back with gadrooned top-rail and flankek by pierced spirally-fluted columns, the arms on spirally fluted baluster supports and on conforming tapering legs headed by flowerheads, re-gilt, one stamped B.HARMER, the other stamped HM, one inscribed in pencil 1/11/49 (2)

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A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS, each with slightly arched rectangular padded back, arm-rests and bowed seat covered in green velvet, the back with gadrooned top-rail and flankek by pierced spirally-fluted columns, the arms on spirally fluted baluster supports and on conforming tapering legs headed by flowerheads, re-gilt, one stamped B.HARMER, the other stamped HM, one inscribed in pencil 1/11/49 (2)

拍品专文

B.Harmer is now thought to have been an outworking chairmaker working for the very best firms in the late 18th and early 19th Century. His stamp has been found on the magnificent suite of dolphin seat furniture supplied by Marsh and Tatham to Powderham Castle, Devon circa 1797 (sold by Lord Courtenay, in these Rooms, 5 July 1990, lots 50 and 51 and on 5 December 1991, lots 222 and 223). His versatility as a maker is demonstrated by his having made a superb set of mahogany dining-chairs sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 11 April 1991, lot 83.