Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture

Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS, CIRCA 1740

Auction Closed

April 16, 08:57 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION


A PAIR OF GEORGE II CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS, CIRCA 1740


height 40 ¾ in.; width 22 in.; length 23 in.

113.7 cm; 55.9 cm; 58.4 cm

The Art Institute of Chicago

Sold Sotheby's New York, 26 January 2000, lot 264

With Devenish, New York

Sotheby's New York, Tom Devenish: The Collection, 24 April 2008, lot 68

The unusual inclusion of a stretcher joining the back legs, the finely sculpted claw-and-ball feet with distinctive open talons and refined asymmetrical acanthus-carved knees all suggest these chairs were produced by an important regional workshop outside London, possibly in the North of England or Ireland.

The intricately drawn and pierced splat is reminiscent of chair designs published by the painter William de la Cour in his First Book of Ornament in 1741. A set of four similar chairs was sold Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 21 October 1978, lot 387, and a further related group of four sold Sotheby's New York, 25 January 1986, lot 145. Both sets have comparable designs to the splat but with variations and uncarved crest rails.