ID 992745
Los 53 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY RIBBON-BACK SIDE CHAIRS
Schätzwert
£ 70 000 – 100 000
AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1755
Each with a ruffled foliate carved arched crest rail above a pierced interlaced splat carved with a ribbon suspending C-scrolls joining pierced foliate stiles and a serpentine over-upholstered seat, above a scalloped C-scroll and ruffle apron centered by a cartouche on hipped cabriole legs ending in scrolled feet, with white-painted 333 and 337 to inner back rail
39 1/2 in. (100.3 cm.) high, 29 1/4 in. (74.3 cm.) wide, 25 1/2 in. (64.8 cm.) deep
Provenance
Part of a set of eight most likely acquired by Thomas Harvard for Barrington Court, near Ilminster, Somerset, circa 1756.
Removed to Dillington House, near Ilminster, Somerset, in the early 19th century.
With R.L. Harrington, Ltd.
With Hotspur Ltd., London
Private Collection, London
Literature
A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, figs.173, 174, 175.
Nicholas Carew, 'Montacute House, Somerset', Connoisseur Year Book, 1952, p. 17, No. IX, the set of eight chairs in the dining room.
G. Wills, English Furniture, 1760-1900, London, 1971, p.18.
N. Goodison and R. Kern, Hotspur: Eighty Years of Antique Dealing, London, 2004, pp. 136-137, fig. 8.
J.L. Milne, Caves of Ice, Diaries: 1946 & 1947, pp.127-128.
L. Wood, ‘Tied Up In Knots: Three Centuries of the Ribbon-Back Chair,’ Furniture History, 2015, vol. 51, pp. 241–70.
Exhibited
Montacute House, Somerset, 1948-1979.
Special notice
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