拍品 99
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS each with shield-shaped channelled back centred by a fluted scallop-shell flanked by husk-trails and with acanthus-carved shoulders, the padded back and seat covered in yellow floral silk with ivory enrichment, with scrolled acanthus arms and channelled supports, the serpentine-fronted seat-rail with central floral patera with stylised classical drapery and rounded corners, on turned, tapering stiff-leaf-headed fluted legs, redecorated, one chair stamped W., twice indistinctly inscribed in pen, each with baton carrying-holes and with cramp-cuts (2)

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS each with shield-shaped channelled back centred by a fluted scallop-shell flanked by husk-trails and with acanthus-carved shoulders, the padded back and seat covered in yellow floral silk with ivory enrichment, with scrolled acanthus arms and channelled supports, the serpentine-fronted seat-rail with central floral patera with stylised classical drapery and rounded corners, on turned, tapering stiff-leaf-headed fluted legs, redecorated, one chair stamped W., twice indistinctly inscribed in pen, each with baton carrying-holes and with cramp-cuts (2)

拍品专文

The acanthus-enriched frame is designed in the George III 'antique' style, in the French manner, promoted by George, Prince of Wales in the early 1780s. Its Roman pelta-shield back with Grecian palmette finial between husk-enriched scrolls, its fluted, foliated and tapering columnar legs and its seat-rail enriched with a flowered libation-paterae draped with a veil festoon featured in designs for 'cabriole' chairs and sofas published by Alice Hepplewhite & Co, in The Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pls. 10, 11 and 23. This style of chair also relates closely to the furniture designs of the architect James Wyatt (d1713), such as feature in his room elevation dating from the 1780s and illustrated in J. Cornforth and J. Fowler, English Decoration in the 18th Century, London, 1974, fig 13.

A pair of chairs from this suite were sold by the Executors of the late Mrs. Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Kent, Christie's house sale, 6 June 1983, lot 125