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A PAIR OF GEORGE I CHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO GILES GRENDEY, English, circa 1715
Height: 41 ¼ in; 104.5 cm
Height of seat: 17 ¾ in; 45 cm
Width: 22 ¼ in; 56.5 cm
Depth: 23 ¾ in; 60.5 cm4489241Further images
Provenance
So far 19 can be traced:
The Neapolitan Court of Charles III, Capodimonte.
12 chairs with Gill & Reigate, 1909 of the 12 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 today two remaining.
The current two chairs, private collection USA.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.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.
