A George III painted and parcel gilt sofa Circa 1780, with fluting and husk carving, the seat frame interspersed by patera angles and centred with a drapery swag tablet, on stiff-leaf headed fluted tapering legs terminating in brass cappings and castors, re-decorated, 242cm wide. Fußnoten Provenance With Frank Green Esq., formerly of The Treasurer's House, York. A set of eight very similar model of giltwood armchairs to the offered sofa featured at Christie's, London, 25 May 1972, Important English Furniture, lot 81. These eight chairs had provenance to the Lords Morley of Saltram House, Devonshire. Saltram was one of the historic properties for which Thomas Chippendale provided furniture during the period 1770-72. Another related chair to the present sofa, albeit mahogany rather than a painted example, which likewise dates to circa 1780, forms part of the collection of fine furniture at Temple Newsam House, near Leeds. This comparable is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Vol. I, 1978, Bradford and London, p.'s 93 & 95, fig. 84.
A George III painted and parcel gilt sofa Circa 1780, with fluting and husk carving, the seat frame interspersed by patera angles and centred with a drapery swag tablet, on stiff-leaf headed fluted tapering legs terminating in brass cappings and castors, re-decorated, 242cm wide. Fußnoten Provenance With Frank Green Esq., formerly of The Treasurer's House, York. A set of eight very similar model of giltwood armchairs to the offered sofa featured at Christie's, London, 25 May 1972, Important English Furniture, lot 81. These eight chairs had provenance to the Lords Morley of Saltram House, Devonshire. Saltram was one of the historic properties for which Thomas Chippendale provided furniture during the period 1770-72. Another related chair to the present sofa, albeit mahogany rather than a painted example, which likewise dates to circa 1780, forms part of the collection of fine furniture at Temple Newsam House, near Leeds. This comparable is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Vol. I, 1978, Bradford and London, p.'s 93 & 95, fig. 84.
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