A Fine Pair of George III Hepplewhite Period Mahogany Armchairs Attributed to John Cobb
Each chair has a curved cartouche shaped upholstered back with carved gadrooned frame. The 'S' shaped padded arms with 'C' shaped moulded supports above an upholstered seat with slender cabriole legs crisply carved with gadrooned edge, foliage and cabochon to the knee and terminating in French style scroll toes.
English, Circa 1775
The chairs had been in the same family for over 80 years and are sold with provenance (1920's bill) from dealers Moss Harris and Sons, New Oxford Street, London, WC1.
Also with a photocopy of the original letter, from M Harris and Sons (traced history of chairs and originally property of the late John Stewart Esq, Stonehurst, Ardingly, Surrey, dated October 1926
ATTRIBUTION
In the 1770's John Cobb supplied a suite of six of these chairs with a matching settee to Philip Yorke for Erdigg, near Wrexham. The suite remains in the house to this day.
Identical chairs Illustrated in
The English Chair by Moss Harris, Plate LXX
The Leisdorf Collection Lot 138
The French Style in English Furniture by R.W. Symonds (Antique Collector, July - August 1950
CINOA Exhibition, The Grand Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972, Plate 212
English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century Pleasures and Treasures by David Nickerson, plate 83
The Prescott Collection lot 323
The French Style in English Furniture by R.W. Symonds (Antique Collector, July - August 1950
CINOA Exhibition, The Grand Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972, Plate 212
English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century Pleasures and Treasures by David Nickerson, plate 83
 "A Fine Pair of George III Hepplewhite Period Mahogany Armchairs Attributed to John Cobb")
