Pair of walnut side chairs with marquetry inlay, English, George II 1720-1740

Pair of Walnut Side Chairs with Marquetry Inlay.

England. George II, 1720 -1740.

Walnut and beech wood; drop-in seats covered in flame stitch needlework.

 
A pair of walnut and beech side chairs with shaped crest rails and pierced baluster (or ‘banister’) back splats
veneered in walnut as are the posts and seat frame. The crest rail inlaid with an urn and flowers, the splat with a Berainesque cartouche with a central shell flanked by masks in profile, surrounded by strapwork and leaves. The centre of the seat frame is inlaid with a design of leaves. The drop in seats with flame stitch needlework raised on cabriole legs.  
English, 1720 – 1740.
 
​Provenance:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Rogers Fund, 1910)
De-accessioned Christie's New York, 14 December 2015 lot 112
 
Adam Bowett (Early Georgian Furniture, 1715 – 1740, plate 4:32, page 161) discusses three sets of walnut chairs with less sophisticated Berainesque inlays to the baluster splat that are possibly those listed in the 1726 inventory of Erddig, in Wrexham. If this is the case this would make them the first documented example of a baluster back chair, with a vase shaped rather than a rectangular splat.  

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