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A SUITE OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD SEAT-FURNITURE

Lot 39
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 100 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1250820
Lot 39 | A SUITE OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD SEAT-FURNITURE
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
A SUITE OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD SEAT-FURNITURE
ATTRIBUTED TO INCE AND MAYHEW, CIRCA 1780
Comprising one two-seater sofa, two bergeres, one large open armchair and six smaller open armchairs, each carved with entrelac motif, the toprail centred by a laurel wreath-tied patera, issuing arm supports terminating in scrolls and decorated with entwined foliate motifs, the serpentine seat-rail conformingly decorated, the sofa with a fluted tablet flanked by roundels issuing a laurel swag, on ring-turned tapering stop-fluted front legs headed by paterae and terminating in foliate-wrapped feet with a guilloche collar, on outswept back legs with scroll foot, the padded back, seat and arms upholstered in green silk damask, regilt, restorations
The sofa: 37 ½ in. (95 cm.) high; 48 in. (122 cm.) wide; 27 ½ in. (70 cm.) deep
Each bergere: 36 ¼ in. (92 cm.) high; 28 ¼ in. (71.5 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) deep
The large open armchair: 40 in. (101.5 cm.) high; 27 ¼ in. (69 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep
Each smaller open armchair: 37 ¾ in. (96 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 22 ½ in. (57 cm.) deep




Provenance

Almost certainly supplied by Ince & Mayhew to Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bt. for Woodhall Park, Hertfordshire, circa 1780, probably for the drawing room, along with two further armchairs, a further larger armchair, four stools and a music stool;
thence by descent;
until sold in 1794 with Woodhall Park to Paul Benfield (1741-1810).
Sold along with Woodhall Park in 1801 to Samuel Smith (1754-1834);
thence by descent until sold by order of the Executors of the late Col. Abel Henry Smith, Sotheby's London, 13 March 1931, lot 111.
Acquired by the current vendors from Partridge in the 1980s.



Literature

C. Cator & H. Roberts, Industry and Ingenuity: The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew, London, 2023, p. 166, ill. fig. 321, 322, 357.
Manufactur:Mayhew & Ince
Medium:Giltwood
Historical era:Georgian period
Place of origin:England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs
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