EIGHT GEORGE II WALNUT HIGH-BACK CHAIRS

Lot 48
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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ID 1071216
Lot 48 | EIGHT GEORGE II WALNUT HIGH-BACK CHAIRS
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£ 4 000 – 6 000
EIGHT GEORGE II WALNUT HIGH-BACK CHAIRS

SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

With high backs and stuff-over seats on cabriole legs, variously covered in damask, minor variations, repairs and restoration, three chairs with replaced back lags, some later sprung

Each: 42 ¾ in. (107.5 cm.) high; 22 in. (55.5 cm.) wide; 25 ½ in. (65 cm.) deep





Provenance

Almost certainly Samuel, 1st Baron Sandys (1695-1770), and by descent.



Literature

Possibly Ombersley Court Inventory, c. 1750-75, listed in 'The Wardrobe'.

A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - I', Country Life, 2 January 1953, pp. 36-37, pl. 8.

A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - II', Country Life, 9 January 1953, pp. 94,96, pl. 2,5.

Ombersley Court Inventory, 1963, in 'The Staircase Hall', in 'The Duke of Wellington Bedroom' and in 'The Adam Room'.





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