A George II Walunt Library Armchair

Circa 1745

the rectangular back and conforming seat decorated with needlepoint upholstery and issuing down-swept arms carved with foliate motifs and terminating in a roundel and raised on foliate carved legs with restored floral returns ending in hairy paw feet.
Height 38 1/2 x width 28 x depth 31 1/2 inches.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Note from Tim Corfield, antiques advisor to Betty and Gordon Moore at Mountain Meadow:

We bought this chair for several reasons. Firstly it has very good shaped cabriole legs both to the front and back. It is actually quite hard to find good Gainsborough chairs with cabriole shaped back legs, most are just straight rectangular section legs. I like the fact that the rosettes carved on the arm terminals are repeated in the ‘ears’ at the top of the legs, although some of these have been replaced. The unusual hairy paw feet are also boldly carved. This chair is covered in a needlework cover which might clean up well. It did live in the library which is a sunny room and it has suffered from sun fading so does need the attentions of a good polisher.

The undersides of feet carved for, but lacking casters. Seat frame sprung with staining to rails. Some corner brackets re-blocked. The left seat rail possible replaced. The front legs with restored floral motifs on top ends.

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Mountain Meadow: Property from the Collection of Betty and Gordon Moore, Woodside, California

A George II Walunt Library Armchair

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