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A PAIR OF EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

Starting price
$ 300 000
Auction dateClassic
20.10.2022 18:00UTC -04:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
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USA, New York
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ID 819794
Lot 46 | A PAIR OF EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
A PAIR OF EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM VILE, CIRCA 1760

The rectangular back and seat covered in silver stencilled crushed silk velvet and flanked by out-scrolled arms with floral terminals issuing trailing vinery above blind fretwork cartouches draped with fully sculpted floral garlands, the apron densely carved with shells, C-scrolls flowers and foliage on blind fretwork carved legs draped with garlands joined by scrolled brackets, on guttae feet raised on casters, one with pencil 1234 to back rail, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

39 1/2 in. (100.3 cm.) high, 28 3/8 in. (72.1 cm.) wide, 29 3/4 in. (75.6 cm.) deep





Provenance

Commissioned by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury (1711-1771), St. Giles's House, Wimborne, Dorset.

By descent to Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th, Earl of Shaftesbury, by whom sold circa 1950 (chairs from the suite were sold throughout the 1950s).

A Private Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 1995, lot 71.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

'St. Giles's House, Dorsetshire, A seat of the Earl of Shaftesbury,' Country Life, 20 March 1915, pp. 373-374.

P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 3 vol., London, 1924-27, vol. III, p. 102, fig. 50; idem. rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 94, fig. 54.

O. Brackett, Thomas Chippendale, London 1930, pl. XXI.

M. Jourdain, 'Furniture at St. Giles's, Dorset', Country Life, 23 June 1934, figs. 1-2.

C. Hussey, 'St. Giles's House, Dorset, the Home of the Earl of Shaftesbury,' Country Life, 24 September 1943, p. 553, figs. 3-4.

R.W. Symonds, 'Suites of Chairs and Sofas of the 18th Century', The Antique Collector, June 1958, pp. 98-100, figs, 2-4.

R. C. Lines, 'My House at St. Giles's,' Connoisseur, vol. CXLIV, August 1959, pl. 12.

'St. Giles's House,' Antique Collector, August 1962, pl. 145.

R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 455, fig. 43.

A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, p. 194, fig. 202.

C. Gilbert, 'The St. Giles's House Furniture sale', Christie's Review of the Season 1980, pp. 214-218.

W. Rieder, 'A Golden Age of English Furniture,' Apollo, February 1980, p. 36, figs. 5 and 6.

G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 110.





Exhibited

Two armchairs from the same suite exhibited in English Taste in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, 1955-56, no. 194.



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Medium:Mahogany, Wood
Historical era:Georgian period
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Category:Armchair, Chair
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