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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GREEN AND WHITE-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS

Lot 510
23.10.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 107 100
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 820168
Lot 510 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III GREEN AND WHITE-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 100 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE III GREEN AND WHITE-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS

BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1772

Each with an oval cartouche-shaped upholstered back within a molded frame carved at the crest with an anthemion, the shaped padded arms with over-scrolled molded hand-holds adorned with beaded and leaf-carved ornament, the back, seat, and arms covered in white silk with a large brocaded silver leaf pattern, English, Spitalfields, circa 1740, supported on foliate headed turned legs with gadrooned feet, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

37 1/4 in. (94.6 cm.) high, 26 1/2 in. (66.7 cm.) wide, 19 in. (48.3 cm.) deep





Provenance

Commissioned by David Garrick, circa 1772, as part of the suite supplied by Chippendale for the Saloon at No. 5, Royal Adelphi Terrace, London.

Anonymous sale; Hall Fine Art Auctions, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 3 September 1993, lot 206.

Acquired from James Hepworth by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1993.

The antique upholstery acquired from Spink & Son Ltd., London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1995.





Literature

Christopher Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, vol. II, p. 98, fig. 160 (a bergère from the Garrick suite).



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