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143 - A SET OF SIX GEORGE III CARVED GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRSATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 179088cm high, 52.5cm wide, 50cm deepThis set of chairs conform to Gillows’ 'Garforthpattern', which first appeared in 1795. The design was probably anadaptation of Georges Jacob's design of circa 1792 forMarie-Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet. In 1796 the Earl of Straffordpurchased six white and green japanned chairs of this design for WentworthWoodhouse, and Sir William Gerard ordered thirty-six mahogany chairs forGarswood New Hall, Lancashire.The design was adopted by the influential architect/designer Sir John Soane (d.1837). He commissioned the set of twenty 'mahogany trellis chairs' for theGovernor’s Room at The Bank, supplied in 1809 by the cabinet-maker David Bruce(d. 1823) of Aldersgate Street, London (see M. Jourdain, 'Early 19th-CenturyFurniture at the Bank of England’, Country Life, 3 October 1947, p. 676,fig. 2). Soane owned a pair of armchairs of the Bank design at his own home atLincoln’s Inn Fields, now the Soane Museum, and adapted the design for a set ofdining-chairs supplied by John Robins in 1821. Robins' invoice described theseas 'trellis back chairs moulded & Paneled [sic] seats French stuffedcovered with black Spanish Morocco red welts [and] stout turned feet topattern’.For a comparable set of twelve chairs, see Christie’s,London, 29 April 2010, lot 86, (£46,850 including premium).
A SET OF SIX GEORGE III CARVED GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRSATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 179088cm high, 52.5cm wide, 50cm deepThis set of chairs conform to Gillows’ 'Garforthpattern', which first appeared in 1795. The design was probably anadaptation of Georges Jacob's design of circa 1792 forMarie-Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet. In 1796 the Earl of Straffordpurchased six white and green japanned chairs of this design for WentworthWoodhouse, and Sir William Gerard ordered thirty-six mahogany chairs forGarswood New Hall, Lancashire.The design was adopted by the influential architect/designer Sir John Soane (d.1837). He commissioned the set of twenty 'mahogany trellis chairs' for theGovernor’s Room at The Bank, supplied in 1809 by the cabinet-maker David Bruce(d. 1823) of Aldersgate Street, London (see M. Jourdain, 'Early 19th-CenturyFurniture at the Bank of England’, Country Life, 3 October 1947, p. 676,fig. 2). Soane owned a pair of armchairs of the Bank design at his own home atLincoln’s Inn Fields, now the Soane Museum, and adapted the design for a set ofdining-chairs supplied by John Robins in 1821. Robins' invoice described theseas 'trellis back chairs moulded & Paneled [sic] seats French stuffedcovered with black Spanish Morocco red welts [and] stout turned feet topattern’.For a comparable set of twelve chairs, see Christie’s,London, 29 April 2010, lot 86, (£46,850 including premium).