£750
Auction: Five Centuries
the pierced shell splat back above an upholstered seat raised on acanthus carved cabriole legs ending in claw and ball feet
Note: This chair with its distinctive shell back is nearly identical to the famous set of chairs believed to have been supplied by Giles Grendey for Henry Hoare at Stourhead, Wiltshire, and illustrated in R. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1954, vol. I, p.275, fig. 154. Other chairs of related design are illustrated in Herbert Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century: Vol. II (The Waverley Book Company Limited, London), figs. 38-40, pp.47-48.