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Description: Pair of George II Walnut Side Chairs
Attributed to Giles Grendey,
circa 1740
Each padded backrest above an overupholstered seat raised on cabriole legs carved with acanthus leaves and pendent husks continuing to scrolled toes, on sunk casters.
Height of backrest 37 inches (94 cm), width 21 inches (53.3 cm), height of seat 18 inches (45.7 cm), width 23 1/2 inches (59.7 cm), width overall 25 inches (63.5 cm), depth 19 1/2 inches (49.5 cm).
Provenance:
Sotheby''s, New York, April 11, 1964, lot 171
Sotheby''s, New York, December 13, 1986, lot 187
Christie''s, New York, January 27, 1990, lot 101
The present chairs may be compared with similar examples bearing the label of the London cabinet maker Giles Grendey (b. 1693-d. 1780). Grendey, of Aylesbury House, St. John''s Square, Clerkenwell, appears to have been one of the most prolific chair makers and cabinet makers working in London during the reign of George II. He was one of the few makers of the period who regularly attached printed trade labels to his furniture, which in the absence of documented provenance, allows a firm attribution to be made on both stylistic and construction grounds to his workshop. The present pair is similar to two suites of seat furniture which retain Grendey''s label. The first of these included an armchair and side chair, the second, from Gunton Park, Norfolk, included four side chairs and a settee; see Christopher Gilbert,
A Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, p. 243, figs. 437 and 438. The legs of all these examples are of a similar profile with scrolled toes, the upper part extending into the frame of the seat. The examples illustrated by Gilbert are carved with acanthus leaves above the toes and, although the knees of those illustrated and the present example all differ in their detail, their design and execution display the same hand.
Cf. Christies, New York, October 16, 1995, lot 32, for a set of six similar chairs.
Literature:
Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert,
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, pp. 371-373.
Christopher Gilbert,
The Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, 1996.
The Noel and Harriette Levine Collection