拍品 98
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with rectangular channelled frame, the padded back, arms and seat covered in green floral silk with ivory enrichments, the channelled arm supports terminated by Greek-key with stiff-leaf and floral patera dome above a pannelled seat-rail, on rosette-headed turned, fluted, tapering legs and stiff-leaf feet, restorations, redecorated, one inscribed to the underside 124391 (2)

细节
A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with rectangular channelled frame, the padded back, arms and seat covered in green floral silk with ivory enrichments, the channelled arm supports terminated by Greek-key with stiff-leaf and floral patera dome above a pannelled seat-rail, on rosette-headed turned, fluted, tapering legs and stiff-leaf feet, restorations, redecorated, one inscribed to the underside 124391 (2)

拍品专文

Designed in the Louis XVI Grecian 'antique' manner, these chairs are related to the suite supplied by Thomas Chippendale (d.1778) for the Gallery at Harewood House, Yorkshire. It is interesting to note, therefore, that the Greek-key terminal of the arm-supports appears in a drawing for a garden bench for Harewood House, attributed to Thomas Chippendale and illustrated in Ivan Hall, 'Newly discovered Chippendale drawings relating to Harewood', Leeds Art Calendar, no. 69, 1971, p. 10, fig 5