ID 1030918
Lot 58 | A PAIR OF EARLY GEORGE III BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED ARMCHAIRS
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
CIRCA 1760
Each with pagoda cresting above a fretwork back and blind fretwork uprights, the slip seat covered in blue silk damask and flanked by out-scrolled arms with eagles head terminals, on bamboo cluster column legs and block feet with casters, with sticker applied to one chair's seat rail possibly inscribed in 19th century ink, Chinese / Armchair / (blue / seat), variations to carving and to size, notably to the eagles, each with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
39 in. (99 cm.) high, 27 in. (68.6 cm.) wide, 25 ¾ in. (65.4 cm.) deep
Provenance
Supplied by Parish-Hadley, New York, to Ann and Gordon Getty in 1975.
Exhibited
San Francisco, San Francisco Fall Antiques Show at Fort Mason, 24-31 October 2010.
| Historical era: | Georgian period |
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| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs |
| Historical era: | Georgian period |
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| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York USA | ||||||||||||||
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