A George III Chinese Chippendale Mahogany & Velvet Upholstered Cockpen Armchair c.1770

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A George III Chinese Chippendale Mahogany & Velvet Upholstered Cockpen Armchair c.1770Origin: English Period: George III Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1770 90 Height: 39. 75 or 20 at seat Width: 25 Depth: 18. 5 (all at extremities) The mahogany cockpen open armchair in the Chinese Chippendale style with a high pierced lattice panel back and elbow supports, having a velvet upholstered seat being Oswego by House of Hackney, the whole on square section chamfered legs, united by stretchers and surviving from the last quarter of eighteenth

Swags and tails often had contrasting lining such as crimson velvet against oyster silk

The work shows the Holy Family

The first one may well be the myth of the Caledonian boar or Actaeon

surrounded by a thick moulded gilt gesso frame surmounted by a pedestal and supporting an eagle spread-eagled

Dating from the Settecento period the mid eighteenth century painted softwood chapel dedication panel in its original pine and gesso frame with hand painted script on a series of five boards headed DOM for Deo Optimo Maximo over a weighty Latin text for the Grassi family surviving from the middle of eighteenth century Italy and almost certainly Rome

She answered

show the influence of Pietro da Cortona

inflated with gas and equipped with a steam engine

Height: 27” down or 40

the rock is most certainly continental

With an exceptionally rich colour and deep patination this well used chair is stable and there is lonely a little movement in the joints

would have carried at least woollen 7

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