A PAIR OF GEORGE I GREEN JAPANNED SIDE CHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO GILES GRENDEY

Literature: Christopher Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam and Lotherton Hall, Vol. I, Leeds 1978, p. 79-81.
Christie's, Godmersham Park, 6-9 June 1983, pp. 38/39, lot 24.
Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., Summer Exhibition 1988, pp. 30-32.
Illustrated:
Herbert Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, Vol I, London 1909, p. 203, Fig. 211.
M. Harris, The English Chair, London 1937, p. 98.
Lucy Wood, The Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, London 2008, pp. 237-243.

Exhibitions: Six chairs from the suite were exhibited at the Antique Dealers Fair and Exhibition at Grosvenor House London in 1935 with M. Harris & Sons.

Provenance

Provenance of the suite:
So far nineteen can be traced to the Neapolitan Court of Charles III, Capodimonte.
Twelve chairs with Gill & Reigate, 1909.
Of the twelve, half went to Chequers Court, Buckinghamshire, England.
A single chair sold a Christie's in 1996.
Six chairs at Ormeley Lodge, Surrey, England.
M. Harris & Sons, London, England.
Colonial Williamsburg collection, USA, since 1936 until today two remaining.
The current two chairs, private collection, USA.