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A George II mahogany settee, circa 1730
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Leonine Grace

A George II mahogany settee, circa 1730

Dimensions:

96.5 cm. (38 in.) high; 167.5 cm. (66 in.) wide; 70 cm. (27 1/2 in.) deep

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Leonine Grace

Description

A George II mahogany settee, circa 1730

Dimensions:

96.5 cm. (38 in.) high; 167.5 cm. (66 in.) wide; 70 cm. (27 1/2 in.) deep

Provenance:

Bought from Ronald Phillips Ltd, 2006.

Written by:
Mallett

Details

Eighteenth-century English furniture carved with lion, leopard's or eagle's heads for arm terminals have been much sought after by twentieth- and twenty-first-century collectors. Probably the best known of all collectors of this type of carved English mahogany, was Percival D Griffiths FSA (1861-1937), whose collection was recently published and reviewed here. Of seat furniture with carved leonine arm terminals, Griffiths owned two armchairs each covered with needlework (F78 & F83) and two settees, one a double-chairback with solid vase-shaped splats (F130) and another with upholstered back and seat as in the present example (F132). the latter two settees' current whereabouts unknown, according to the authors of the recent book on Griffiths. The upholstered settee (F132) was recently sold through Stair Galleries auctions, Hudson, New York, 23 September 2021, lot 419 ($68,880). A photograph of the armchair (F83 - in the Gerstenfeld collection) in profile, was used on as the front cover of the dust-jacket of the monograph of Jon Gerstenfeld's superlative collection of English eighteenth-century furniture.

The collection Theodore and Ruth Baum included at least three superb walnut and mahogany armchairs, with arm terminals carved as lion's heads (Sotheby's New York, 22 October 2004, lots 446, 452, & 464).

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Mallett

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A George II mahogany settee, circa 1730

Dimensions:

96.5 cm. (38 in.) high; 167.5 cm. (66 in.) wide; 70 cm. (27 1/2 in.) deep

Provenance:

Bought from Ronald Phillips Ltd, 2006.

Written by:
Mallett

Leonine Grace

Eighteenth-century English furniture carved with lion, leopard's or eagle's heads for arm terminals have been much sought after by twentieth- and twenty-first-century collectors. Probably the best known of all collectors of this type of carved English mahogany, was Percival D Griffiths FSA (1861-1937), whose collection was recently published and reviewed here. Of seat furniture with carved leonine arm terminals, Griffiths owned two armchairs each covered with needlework (F78 & F83) and two settees, one a double-chairback with solid vase-shaped splats (F130) and another with upholstered back and seat as in the present example (F132). the latter two settees' current whereabouts unknown, according to the authors of the recent book on Griffiths. The upholstered settee (F132) was recently sold through Stair Galleries auctions, Hudson, New York, 23 September 2021, lot 419 ($68,880). A photograph of the armchair (F83 - in the Gerstenfeld collection) in profile, was used on as the front cover of the dust-jacket of the monograph of Jon Gerstenfeld's superlative collection of English eighteenth-century furniture.

The collection Theodore and Ruth Baum included at least three superb walnut and mahogany armchairs, with arm terminals carved as lion's heads (Sotheby's New York, 22 October 2004, lots 446, 452, & 464).

Written by:
Mallett

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