ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, A GEORGE III AND LATER CARVED WOOD AND PAINTED SERPENTINE SOFA The shaped back carved with central ribbon tie and husk cresting above a padded back, sides and seat, with scrolling arms above dog tooth frieze with cramp cuts, raised on four turned and reeded legs. (h 84cm x d 86cm x w 233cm) Provenance: The Hon. Daisy Fellowes, Donnington Grove, Berkshire, Paris, born Daisy Fellowes, 1890 - 1962, Heiress to the singer sewing machine fortune and a notable society hostess and style icon, married Winston Churchill's cousin The Hon. Reginald Fellowes, 1919, In 1940 they acquired Donnington Grove, Berkshire, a 1763 house built in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style N.B. this sofa in its similarity to Chippendale documented seat-furniture, particularly at Burton Constable, Yorkshire, where Chippendale describes his furniture as: ?done in a neat but not an expensive manner? . Its graceful serpentine form is closely related to a pair of sofas supplied in circa 1778 to William Constable, 1721 - 1791, for the Great Drawing Room at Burton Constable, Yorkshire, while the frame of the present sofa is less ornately carved, it features four near identical turned and reeded legs, for another sofa by Thomas Chippendale, see Christie?s, London, lot 19, 5th July 2018