A SET OF SIX GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1785
Details
The wheel-shaped backs centered with a circular leaf carved paterae, having eight husk-enriched triangular spokes entwined with leaf-carved festoons, and radiating the cross-grained outer rim, the arms out-curving, the saddle-shaped seats with serpentine front rails united to the backs with tenoned slats, supported on turned and fluted tapering front legs and circular splay rear legs, with loose seat cushions, with minor variations to carving throughout
Provenance
Acquired from J.J. Wolff Antiques, Ltd., New York, in 1963.
Exhibited
International Art Treasures Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1962, Cat. no. 87, pl. 62.
Lot Essay
The medallion or wheel chair-back design featured on this set was popularized by Robert Adam, however, it relates to those published in the mid-1780s by George Hepplewhite (d.1786) in The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788, pl. 6), and to the pattern for the 'New Catherine Wheel' circa 1785-90 by Robert Gillows (d.1772) of Gillows of Lancaster and London (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs, 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 269). A pair of wheel back chairs with comparable carving from the renowned Sir Sidney Greville collection is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, pl. 162, p. 158.
CIRCA 1785
Details
The wheel-shaped backs centered with a circular leaf carved paterae, having eight husk-enriched triangular spokes entwined with leaf-carved festoons, and radiating the cross-grained outer rim, the arms out-curving, the saddle-shaped seats with serpentine front rails united to the backs with tenoned slats, supported on turned and fluted tapering front legs and circular splay rear legs, with loose seat cushions, with minor variations to carving throughout
Provenance
Acquired from J.J. Wolff Antiques, Ltd., New York, in 1963.
Exhibited
International Art Treasures Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1962, Cat. no. 87, pl. 62.
Lot Essay
The medallion or wheel chair-back design featured on this set was popularized by Robert Adam, however, it relates to those published in the mid-1780s by George Hepplewhite (d.1786) in The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788, pl. 6), and to the pattern for the 'New Catherine Wheel' circa 1785-90 by Robert Gillows (d.1772) of Gillows of Lancaster and London (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs, 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 269). A pair of wheel back chairs with comparable carving from the renowned Sir Sidney Greville collection is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, pl. 162, p. 158.
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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
Estimate $8,000 - $12,000
Starting Price $4,000
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