Pair of George I Walnut Side Chairs
ENGLAND, CIRCA 1730
101 x 60 x 63 cm
39 ¾ x 23 ½ x 24 ¾ in
39 ¾ x 23 ½ x 24 ¾ in
JL22
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Provenance
Collection of Frank Green (who donated Treasurer's House in York to the National Trust in 1930)Sold Christie's London, 17 April 1997, lot 127
Acquired from Mallet, London in 2009
Private Collection, Switzerland
Literature
Therle Hughes, Old English Furniture, (Medill Mcbride Company, New York, 1950) , illustrated pl. 11Lanto Synge, Mallett Millennium, Fine Antiques and Works of Art, Antique Collectors' Club, 1999, p. 52-54, ill. fig. 47
Mallett, Antique Furniture, 2009, illustrated p. 39
Mallett advertisement, Country Life in June of 2009
Each with a curvilinear padded back and seat covered in the original floral needlework with a waterlily design of blue, green, yellow, ivory and beige flowers and foliage on a...
Each with a curvilinear padded back and seat covered in the original floral needlework with a waterlily design of blue, green, yellow, ivory and beige flowers and foliage on a red ground, raised on front C scroll carved cabriole legs and pad feet and curved back legs. Each chair with spliced repair behind the front knee.
A set of four chairs of similar form can be found in the Treasurer's House, North Yorkshire (National Trust Collections, NT 592766). In discussing these, Bowett comments that compared to examples with a rectangular back, the chairs in that set have a 'compass' back, representing the more expensive and perhaps more fashionable option.' (Adam Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture 1715-1740 (Antique Collectors' Club, 2009) p. 169.)
A set of four chairs of similar form can be found in the Treasurer's House, North Yorkshire (National Trust Collections, NT 592766). In discussing these, Bowett comments that compared to examples with a rectangular back, the chairs in that set have a 'compass' back, representing the more expensive and perhaps more fashionable option.' (Adam Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture 1715-1740 (Antique Collectors' Club, 2009) p. 169.)