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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE ANNE, LADY HOLLENDEN VALLEY FARM EDGEWORTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS (LOTS 1-37)

A GEORGE II WALNUT ARMCHAIR

MID-18TH CENTURY

细节

A GEORGE II WALNUT ARMCHAIR
MID-18TH CENTURY
The scrolled dished toprail above a pierced vase-shaped splat, with serpentine arms with eagle's head terminals, above a padded seat covered in blue foliate silk damask, on cabriole legs carved with acanthus and rockwork cabochons centred by flowerheads, on claw-and-ball feet, the ears replaced, the right arm terminal replaced

来源

Possibly bought from Moss Harris, 44-52 New Oxford Street, 25 June 1940 'To an Old English Walnut elbow chair on carved cabriole legs £80'.

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拍品专文

A single side chair with a similarly 'paper-scrolled' toprail was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 18 September 2003, lot 134. The latter featured similar acanthus cartouche-carved knees and ball-and-claw feet, whilst its splat design was different, but it was also pierced. The latter chair also featured a Vitruvian scroll frieze. It was possibly part of a set supplied to George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield for Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire and was illustrated in 'Furniture from Ditchley', Country Life, 20 May 1933, p. 517, no. 7 and 'Ditchley - II', Country Life, 16 June 1934, p. 623, no. 2 [one chair shown in situ in The Great Hall]. A set of chairs listed as '10 Mahogany chairs with red morocco seats and four elbow chairs' are listed at Ditchley in the 1743 inventory and as considerable payments were made between 1740-1742 to William Bradshaw (d. 1775) it seems possible that he supplied the Ditchley chairs.