Beschreibung:

An important pair of George III painted and parcel-gilt drawing room chairs, retaining their original painted-cotton seat covers and upholstery Circa 1795 the first chair with cresting rail centered by a carved musical trophy of a French hunting horn and another horn within an oval lozenge flanked by flaming torches and foliate acanthus lozenges within a beaded tablet and flanked by flower heads surmounted by gadrooned finials raised on stop-fluted columnar stiles with foliate capitals, the rectangular upholstered backrest à chassis and painted with a female figure holding an open book in her right hand and a compass in her left hand representing Prudence within a beaded oval lozenge flanked by winged caryatids holding a foliate canopy and floral swags amid foliate and floral grotesques all within a beaded border and painted with swirling acanthus to the square edge, the S-curved downswept armrests carved with trailing berried foliage and beading terminating in block-form handholds applied with flowerheads on tapered fluted acanthus-carved baluster supports, the rounded drop-in seat with conforming decoration to the backrest and painted with swirling acanthus to the square edge, above a conforming seat rail with beaded moldings raised on circular turned fluted tapering legs carved with beading and stiff leaves headed by flowerheads and terminating in turned feet, stamped I to the frame and backrest, the back marked with number 26.708 in red ink; the second chair with cresting rail centered by a carved martial trophy of a cannon, axe, spears and flags; the backrest painted with a blindfolded female figure with swirling drapery representing Fortune, stamped II to the frame and backrest, the back marked 26.712 in red ink. Retaining the original gilt-metal and steel screw attachments.