拍品 47
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A REGENCY MAHOGANY GOTHIC ARMCHAIR
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A REGENCY MAHOGANY GOTHIC ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1820, ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE SMITH

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY GOTHIC ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1820, ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE SMITH
With griffin arm terminals
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

The romantic George IV dining chair, with heraldic caryatid arms supported by Apollo's griffin head 'erased and borne on a wreath', reflects the antiquarian fashion for fusing Grecian and medieval styles. The Brewer Street cabinet-maker George Smith (d. 1826/7), described as 'Principal of the Drawing Academy' and 'Upholsterer and Furniture Draughtsman' to George IV, engraved its pattern for a 'Dining Room Gothic Chair' in 1827. Although the pattern featured in Smith's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826/7 (pl. 43), the chair may already have been executed by Smith, since he claimed to have been employed, 'by some of the most exalted characters in the country to manufacture many of the Designs'.