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21 novembre 2010

Two George I walnut wing armchairs, circa 1720

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A George I walnut wing armchair, circa 1720. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2010

With associated gros and petit point needlework, the back with a panel depicting a maiden by a well, surrounded by trailing foliage and flowers, the sides and back with plain cotton, on shell carved cabriole legs with pad feet and leather castors, some reworking to the needlework, the back seat-rail replaced, restorations to the ears of back legs; 46 in. (117 cm.) high; 39½ in. (100 cm.) wide; 31 in. (79 cm.) deep - Estimate £25,000 - £40,000. Price Realized £70,850

Provenance: Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 5 July 1990, lot 123.
With Partridge Fine Arts, from whom acquired by the current owner, 9 January 1991.

Notes: The form of this wing armchair - with its distinctive, moulded walnut showfrieze - is extremely rare. Perhaps the closest parallel, and indeed perhaps the only other known example, is that sold from the collections of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundations, Sotheby's New York, 24 October 1992, lot 320. The Williamsburg chair, which has pointed pad feet, was acquired by Percival D. Griffiths in 1936 and was first published by R.W. Symonds in Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, Batsford, London, 1940, col. pl. II - before being subsequently acquired under Symonds' guidance for Colonial Williamsburg from the collection of Mrs. Geoffrey Hart.

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A George I walnut wing armchair, circa 1720.  Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2010

Upholstered in associated 18th century close-nailed gros and petit-point floral needlework, the back and seat depicting classical figures, on cabriole legs with pad feet; 45½ in. (115.5 cm.) high; 35 in. (89 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep - Estimate £15,000 - £25,000. Price Realized £34,850

Provenance: Purchased from Stair & Co., London, 5 March 1986.

Christie's. Quai d'Orsay, Paris - An Apartment by Jacques Grange, 19 November 2010, London, King Street www.christies.com

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