Description
An early-18th century walnut wing armchair, ca 1715.
This fine English walnut wingback chair is raised on well-drawn carved cabriole legs. With a lovely kick on the back legs.
Remarkably, after some 310 years, it still retains its original gros-point needlework upholstery in vibrant colours.Of superb proportions, colour, figuring and patination.
Measures:
H 106 cm (42”)
D 68 cm (27”).
W 87.5 cm (34 1/2”).Seat H: 42.5 cm.
Literature:
Herbert Cescinsky, English Furniture Of The Eighteenth Century, George Routledge & Sons (1911) vol. I, p. 81, fig. 105. ”A walnut easy chair” dated 1710.
Nb. A slightly earlier antique walnut and beech wing armchair with contemporary needlework, circa 1710, sold in Christies, lot 164, October 2015 @ £48,350 – The Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sothebys sold a George II needlework-upholstered walnut wing armchair, circa 1730, lot 22, Oct. 2013 @ £62,900.
Christies sold a similar Georgian walnut wing chair, lot 50, on 22 May 2019 @ £37,500, with associated 18th century gros- and petit-point needlework, restorations, and the back seat rail replaced.
Ralph Edwards C.B.E., F.S.A. The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture – From the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period, 1972, illus. 5, page 400 and p. 402. Vis. A winged armchair in the Victoria and Albert Museum London, ca 1720.
