A pair of George II carved burr walnut and walnut side chairs

AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS

These particularly fine chairs are executed in very well carved and finely figured burr walnut of exceptional colour and patina. The splats with foliate scrolls surmounted by a shell cresting, above shaped seats and a shaped frieze, now upholstered in gold silk damask. They stand on wonderfully drawn cabriole legs carved with acanthus leaves and terminating in ball and claw feet.

English: circa 1730

Width: 24 in 61cm
Depth: 22 in 56 cm
Height: 40 ½ in 103 cm

Provenance: Middleton Hall, Belford, Northumberland, until 1947.

A similar pair of chairs comprising a suite was formally in the collection of Mrs David Gubbay, from the Saloon at Clandon Park, Surrey (John Cornforth, The inspiration of the past, 1985 p 215.

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