A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WINDOW SEAT

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22.11.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 52 920
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ID 848510
Los 4 | A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WINDOW SEAT
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£ 30 000 – 50 000
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WINDOW SEAT

DESIGNED BY ROBERT ADAM, CIRCA 1780, POSSIBLY CARVED BY SEFFERIN ALKEN

The padded scrolled arms and seat covered in olive-green and pink damask-pattern fabric, the frames with overscrolled arms carved with guilloche and leaves, the breakfront seatrail carved with anthemia and foliage interspersed with foliate paterae and hung with foliate scrolled pendants, on leaf-carved and part-fluted baluster legs with beaded collars and gadrooned feet, with printed labels to the underside ‘Art Treasures / Exhibition 1928 / No. 160’ and ‘No. 160 / ADAM WINDOW SEAT / Frank Partridge Esq.’, and ivorine label for Frank Partridge New York, inscribed in pencil ‘P 17629’

28 in. (71 cm.) high; 41 1/2 in. (105.5 cm.) wide; 18 1/2 in. (47 cm.) deep





Provenance

Probably supplied to Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol (d. 1803) for Ickworth Park, Suffolk, circa 1780.

Richard de Wolfe Brixey, Esq. (1880-1943), New York.

Frank Partridge, Inc., New York, circa 1928.

The Collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jr., New York; sold Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 29-30 April 1960, lot 224 (a pair).

The Leidesdorf Collection; sold Sotheby's, New York, 27-28 June 1974, lot 81.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 July 1988, lot 82.

Partridge Fine Art Ltd., London, 21 July 1988 (inv. 8208).



Literature

R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, III, p. 181, fig. 62.



Exhibited

London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Art Treasures, 1928, no. 160 (exhibited by Frank Partridge).

New York, Loan Exhibition of Notable Chippendale Furniture, 1929.

New York, Exhibition of French and English Art Treasures of the 18th Century, 1942, no. 527.



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