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Description: George II Walnut Open Armchair
Mid 18th century
The shaped crest carved with drapery swags and stylized eagle''s heads, above a pierced interlaced acanthus carved splat with scrolled arms terminating in eagles'' heads on leaf carved supports, over a drop-in seat with an applied gadrooned border, raised on acanthus carved cabriole legs ending in claw and ball feet.
Height of backrest 37 3/4 inches (95.8 cm), width 25 1/4 inches (1.41 m), height of seat 18 inches (45.7 cm), width of seat 28 inches (71.1 cm), width overall 30 inches (76.3 cm), depth 17 3/4 inches (45.1 cm).
Provenance:
Philip Colleck of London, New York
Eagle-headed terminals of armrests are found on numerous suites of furniture in the second quarter of the 18th century, including the suite of armchairs and a settee designed in the manner of William Kent and supplied to Sir Robert Walpole for the Marble Parlour at Houghton Hall, Norfolk; cf. a pair of armchairs, sold, Christie''s, London,
Works of Art from Houghton, December 8, 1994, lot 130. A suite of six chairs and a settee,
circa 1730-1740, is attributed to Giles Grendey at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside. The settee, with almost identical armrest terminals to the present armchair, is illustrated, Lucy Wood,
The Upholstered Furniture of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, 2008, vol. I, p. 246, iv 20G. It is interesting to note that Wood,
ibid., cites and illustrates the Houghton armchair, p. 262, fig.171, stating that the suite made for the Marble Parlour [was] ''possibly made by Grendey''. A seemingly identical settee to the present example attributed to Grendey was sold, Sotheby''s, London,
Benacre Hall, Suffolk, May 9, 10 and 11, 2000, lot 261, and a later example,
circa 1755, lot 284. The same eagle-headed terminals are seen on a George II needlework-upholstered walnut settee sold, Christie''s, New York.
Property from the Collection of Dr. Frank Crozer Knowles, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1988, lot 246, a detail of the terminal illustrated on the catalogue''s front cover. The present armchair is slightly later than the Grendey suite and was probably made in the latter part of the 1740s.
The Noel and Harriette Levine Collection