18th century mahogany Cockpen armchair

Description

A late 18th century mahogany armchair of ‘Cockpen’ design.
George III period, ca 1770.

Note the unusual treatment of the carved and moulded arm supports and pierced centre H-stretcher.
Some historic restorations.
Sturdy in all joints. A sophisticated antique (Georgian) desk chair or occasional armchair. Ready-to-use.

Refs:

Christopher Gilbert ‘The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale’ p.101, fig 167.
Ralph Edwards CBE FSA ‘A Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture’, Hamlyn publ, London, Fourth Impression 1972, p.150, ill. 132, documents a similar armchair dated circa 1765.
‘English furniture’ by Thomas Arthur Strange, pp. 133, 156 & 157.
Thomas Chippendale ‘Director’, ill. XXVI.
Percy Macquoid, ‘A History of English Furniture, The Age of Mahogany’, London, 1908, ill. 682.
Ralph Edwards CBE FSA ‘Georgian Cabinet-Makers’, London, 1955, p. 136, fig. 88.
Sebastian Pryke ‘The 18th Century Furniture Trade in Edinburgh’.
Sebastian Pryke ‘Cockpen Quest’ Country Life, 29th April, 1993.

Named for pew chairs with a Chinese lattice design in the Cockpen Church, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland, Cockpen chairs were originally made for the aristocratic Dalhousie family, circa 1775. The master cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale provided chairs of this form for Normanton Park, Rutland, and also Harewood House, West Yorkshire.