The chair with another from the set in their original needlework covers, photographed in 1960, in Anthony Coleridge’s Chippendale Furniture, 1968
A GEORGE II GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR, The chair: English, circa 1755
The needlework: French, circa 1750
Height of seat: 17 in; 43 cm
Width: 32 ½ in; 83 cm
Depth: 30 ¼ in; 77 cm
Further images
Provenance
Belvedere House, County Westmeath, Ireland;
Symonds Incorporated, New York, USA;
Robert J. Dunham, New York, USA, until 1947;
Frank Partridge Incorporated, New York, USA;
Walter P. Chrysler, New York, USA, until 1960;
J. J. Wolff, New York, USA;
Mrs. Reuben Trane, USA, until 1964;
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
Literature
William Ince and John Mayhew, The Universal System for Household Furniture, 1762, pl. LV.
Christie, Manson & Woods, ‘Old English Furniture - Fine Chinese Porcelain and Objects of Art, The Property of Henry Hirsch Esq.’, sale catalogue, 10 June 1931, pp. 24-5, lot 55.
Antique Collector, April 1957, title page; a chair with G. Jetley.
Christie, Manson & Woods, ‘Fine English Furniture’, sale catalogue, 13 February 1975, lot 37, pl. 3.
Connoisseur, June 1976, p. 64; advertisement with Glaisher & Nash.
Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., ‘Summer Exhibition 1989’, catalogue, pp. 38-9.
Illustrated:
Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., ‘Masterpieces of Georgian Furniture and Chinese Porcelain, Property of Robert J. Dunham, New York, USA’, 9 & 10 May 1947, pp. 140-41, lot 370.
Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., ‘The Walter P. Chrysler Collection of English Furniture’, 6 & 7 May 1960, vol. 2, pp. 48–9, lot 372.
Anthony Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, 1968, pl. 185.
Desmond Guinness and William Ryan, Irish Houses and Castles, 1971, p. 294.
