A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS

Los 539
23.10.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 378 000
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ID 820213
Los 539 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1765, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

Each with rectangular back, curved arms and serpentine seat covered in Italian deep blue silk cut-velvet and uncut velvet, circa 1740, above a foliate-carved seat-rail on cabriole legs, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

39 in. (99 cm.) high, 24 3/4 in. (63 cm.) wide, 20 1/2 in. (52 cm.) deep





Provenance

Commissioned by Sir William Lee, 4th Bt., for the Drawing Room at Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire.

By descent to Mrs. Benedict Eyre, Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire.

The Valuable Contents of Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Sold by Order of the Trustees of Mrs. Benedict Eyre; Sotheby's, house sale, 26-28 April 1938, lot 121.

The Property of a Lady; Christie's, London, 9 July 1992, lot 60.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

The fabric acquired from Cora Ginsberg, New York by Ann and Gordon Getty in 2017.



Literature

C. Hussey, English Country Houses, Early Georgian, London, 1955, p. 203, fig. 364.





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