PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
A PAIR OF GEORGE III CARVED FRUITWOOD ARMCHAIRS

IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1755

成交價 美元 151,200
估價
美元 120,000 – 美元 180,000
估價不包括買家酬金。成交總額為下鎚價加以買家酬金及扣除可適用之費用。
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III CARVED FRUITWOOD ARMCHAIRS

IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1755

成交價 美元 151,200
拍品終止拍賣: 2024年2月1日
成交價 美元 151,200
拍品終止拍賣: 2024年2月1日
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III CARVED FRUITWOOD ARMCHAIRS
IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1755
Each cartouche-form padded back, arms and seat upholstered in petit and gros point floral needlework, one back with a cartouche depicting a gentleman and two ladies playing cards in a garden over a seat with a cartouche depicting three birds in a garden, the other depicting a gentleman courting a lady with horn-playing musician over a seat with two hunt dogs pursuing a deer, the molded frame carved overall with rocaille S-scrolls and acanthus leaves, the shaped and arched top rail with pierced central rocaille acanthus clasp with cabochon issuing husks, the outscrolled arms above downscrolled acanthus-wrapped knuckles and supports, over a generously proportioned tapering seat with serpentine frontrail carved with central rocaille acanthus clasp, the delicately molded cabriole legs headed by a recessed C-scroll cabochon issuing further acanthus scrolls and trailing a husk garland, the trifurcated scrolled feet on pads, formerly gilded, the needlework associated
41 ¼ in. (104.8 cm.) high, 30 in. (76.2 cm.) wide, 28 in. (71.1 cm.) deep
來源
Part of a suite of twelve armchairs almost certainly supplied to Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774) for Walcot Hall, Lydbury North, Shropshire.
By descent at Walcot until sold by the Direction of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Powis and Viscount Clive; Harrods, House Sale, 22-26 July 1929, lots 712-717 (catalogued as Louis XV, one of the chairs illustrated in plate opp. p. 30).
With Charles of London, New York.
Mrs. George L. Mesker, 'La Fontana', Palm Beach; sold Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 27-29 October 1943, lot 767.
Baron and Baroness Carl von Seidlitz; sold Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 3 May 1947, lot 110.
Property of a New York Estate; Christie's, New York, 13 April 2000, lot 93.
Acquired from the above sale.
出版
'Exhibits of Decorative Arts', The Art News, New York, 10 Nov. 1934, p. 10 (a pair of chairs from the suite).
J. Aronson, The Book of Furniture and Decoration: Period and Modern, New York, 1936, pl. opposite p.112 (a single chair from the suite).
A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, New York, 1968, pl.185 (a single chair from the suite).

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