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A PAIR OF GEORGE II WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS

Lot 13
20.10.2022 18:00UTC -05:00
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 819755
Lot 13 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 400 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE II WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS

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

The cartouche-shaped molded backs with foliate spray cresting scrolling foliage and C-scrolls bordering lozenge panels the base with a bowknot and upholstered à chassis and flanked by out-scrolled arms carved with pendant husks and acanthus, the supports with palm fronds, the serpentine seat centered with a berried palmette spray emitting acanthus and bellflowers, the apron and legs wrapped with palm fronds continuing to scrolled legs with ribbed border and entwined foliage all against a cream incised diapered ground, upholstered in cream silk cut velvet damask, one with with red-painted Ford inventory number 2-9- b to inner back rail, the other with traces of a red Ford inventory number, 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 in. (73.5 cm) deep





Provenance

Supplied to John Spencer, later 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783) for the Palm Room at Spencer House, circa 1758.

The Collection of Henry Ford II; Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 1991, lot 228.

With Jonathan Harris, London.

Acquired from Christopher Gibbs, London, through James Hepworth by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1993.



Literature

A. Young, A Six Week Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, 2nd ed., 1768, p. 354.

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.

F. Sheppard, ed., Survey of London-The Parish of St. James Westminster, 1960, p. 531.

P. Thornton and J. Hardy, 'The Spencer Furniture at Althorp,' Apollo magazine, March, June and October 1968.

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

G. Beard and C. Gilbert ed., Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, London, 1986, pp. 355-357.

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.





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