A PAIR OF GEORGE II SCARLET AND GILT-JAPANNED CHAIRS

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Лот 568 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II SCARLET AND GILT-JAPANNED CHAIRS
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SCARLET AND GILT-JAPANNED CHAIRS

BY GILES GRENDEY, CIRCA 1740

Japanned overall in tones of gold and silver with chinoiserie scenes of courtly figures in landscapes on a red ground, each with a vase-form splat and caned seat on cabriole legs and stretchers, one chair with numeral III, S1, and H inscribed to underside, decoration refreshed, particularly to the red ground, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

39 1/2 in. (100.3 cm.) high, 21 1/2 in. (54 cm.) wide, 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm.) deep





Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to either Don Juan Raimundo de Arteaga-Lazcano y Chiriboga (d. 1761), III Marqués de Valmediano, El Señor de la Casa de Lazcano con Grandeza de España for Lazcano Castle, Guipúzcoa, San Sebastián, Spain, circa 1735-40.

Thence by descent at Lazcano Castle to Don Juan de Dios de Silva Mendoza y Sandoval, X Duque del Infantado (1672-1737), or his daughter, Doña Maria Teresa de Silva y Mendoza, XI Duquesa del Infantado (1707-1770).

Thence by descent with the Dukes of Infantado to Don Joaquín Maria de Arteaga-Lazcano y Echagüe Silva-Bazán (1870-1947), 17th Duque del Infantado, Lazcano.

From whom seventy-two pieces of the suite acquired by Adolph Loewi, 1930.

The Rosen Foundation, Caramoor, New York; Christie's, New York, 14 April 1984, lot 154 (part of a set of six).

A Private Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 1995, lot 89.



Literature

R. W. Symonds, 'Giles Grendey (1693-1780) and the Export Trade of English Furniture to Spain', Apollo, 1935, pp. 337-342.

R. W. Symonds, Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, London, 1940, pp. 87-88, figs. 56-57.

R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, 'Georgian Cabinet-Makers VIII - Giles Grendey & William Hallett', Country Life, 1942, pp. 176-177.

C. de Arteago, La casa del Infantado, cabeza de Mendoza, vol. II, 1944.

R. W. Symonds, 'In Search of Giles Grendey', Country Life, 1951, pp. 1792-1794.

R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, 1955, p. 145.

C. Gilbert, 'Furniture by Giles Grendey for the Spanish Trade', The Magazine Antiques, April 1971, pp. 544-550.

'English Japanned Furniture', Connoisseur, June 1964, p. 120.

Leeds Art Calendar, no. 66, 1970, p. 3.

H. Huth, Lacquer of the West, 1971, pls. 65-66.

G. Wills, English Furniture 1550-1760, London, 1971, p. 130.

S. Jervis, 'A Great dealer in the Cabinet Way: Giles Grendey (1693-1780)', Country Life, 1974, pp. 1418-1419.

C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, vol. I, Leeds, 1978, pp. 79-81.

G. Beard & C. Gilbert (eds.), The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 371-372.

G. Beard & J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, pp. 34 & 86.

C. Gilbert, The Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp. 31-32 & figs. 442-451.

‌[11:32 AM] McKinney, Annsley

Mcgill, Forrest, A Curious Affair: The Fascination Between East and West, San Francisco, CA, 2006, pp. 46-47. (One chair).





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