Provenance:
Hotspur Ltd., London, 21 June 1986 (with invoice)

Note:
This bergère can be attributed to Thomas Chippendale based on two virtually identical bergères which were part of the documented suite supplied to the actor David Garrick (1717-1779) for his London townhouse on Adelphi terrace in 1772 (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale Vol. II, London, 1978, p. 98, fig. 160). The only apparent difference is the laurel leaf-carved apron which is on another bergère supplied to the Duke of Gloucester and is now in the Royal Collection at Clarence House, London (RCIN 100205).