A SCOTTISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY 'COCKPEN' ARMCHAIR
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Auction: Day 1: Wednesday 20 August - Lots 1 - 296
Description
the square lattice back above a padded concave seat upholstered in chequered woven black horsehair, flanked by open arms and raised on slightly outswept cluster column legs joined by an ‘H’ stretcher
Dimensions
57cm wide, 86cm high, 50cm deep
Footnote
See Francis Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Furniture History Society 1983, Plate 46, ‘Cockpen chair, mahogany, c.1775. This may well be the type of chair described by James Hamilton as a ‘chinese chair’, possibly by Young, Hamilton and Trotter’, illustrating a near identical chair