A GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR mid-18th century, the arched i...

Hammer

£750

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR mid-18th century, the arched interlaced back with serpentine arms above a padded seat covered in brass space-nailed and braid-edged green silk-velvet, on cabriole legs headed by carved foliage, 95cm high

Please note is has been suggested that this chair dates from the 19th century in the manner of Robert Manwairing

This armchair is designed in the George II picturesque fashion as popularised by William de la Cour's First Book of Ornament, 1741. Contemporary chairs of simpler design appear to have belonged to the artist Francis Hayman (d.1776) since they appear in so many of his portraits (see L. Gowing, 'Hogarth, Hayman, and the Vauxhall Decorations' Burlington Magazine, January 1953, p. 13, fig. 11).