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A GEORGE II PARCEL-GILT AND GREY-PAINTED ARMCHAIR

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22.10.2022 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 820019
Lot 357 | A GEORGE II PARCEL-GILT AND GREY-PAINTED ARMCHAIR
A GEORGE II PARCEL-GILT AND GREY-PAINTED ARMCHAIR

DESIGNED BY JOHN VARDY AND ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED BY JOHN GORDON, CIRCA 1758

The cartouche-shaped back upholstered à chassis, the molded frame carved with scrolling foliage, centered by a foliate spray to the cresting and by ribbon-tied palm fronds to the base, the padded armrests carved with flowerheads to each side at the back and to the molded scrolled terminals, on palm-leaf and husk-carved arm-supports, the serpentine padded seat centered to front and sides by carved palmettes above cornucopiae issuing acanthus and husks, on palm-carved cabriole legs with ribbed tree trunks issuing fronds, with foliate-scrolled toes on oval gadrooned pads concealing castors, re-decorated, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

41 1/2 in. (105.5 cm.) high, 29 in. (73.5 cm.) wide, 29 3/4 in. (75.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Supplied to John Spencer, later 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783) for the Palm Room Spencer House, St. James's, London, as part of a large suite of seat furniture.

Thence by descent to his son, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1734-1834) who removed the suite from the Palm Room during Henry Holland's renovations, circa 1788-96, and by descent until sold.

Acquired by the Earls of Harrington at an unknown date, and latterly at Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire.

The Property of Elvaston Investment, Ltd.; Sotheby's, London, 29 November 2002, lot 154.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

E.B. Chancellor, The Private Palaces of London, 1908, p. 342.

M. Jourdain and F. Rose, English Furniture: The Georgian Period 1750-1830, 1953, pp. 69, 75, 87, pls. 25, 36, 52.

P. Thornton and J. Hardy, 'The Spencer Furniture at Althorp,' Apollo, March 1968, p. 189, fig. 21.

C. Simon Sykes, Private Palaces, 1986, pp. 179, 181.

J. Friedman, 'Spencer House', Apollo, August 1987, pp. 91, 93, figs. 12, 15.

J. Friedman, Spencer House, 1993, pp. 118, 155, 254, pls. 87, 137, 227.

S. Weber Soros (ed.), James "Athenian" Stuart: The Rediscovery of Antiquity, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 425, fig. 10-16 (a chair from the same suite).



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