Lot 148
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR
The padded back, arms, seat and squab-cushion covered in crimson silk floral-damask with tasselled fringe, the outscrolled arms carved with entrelac and rosette terminals, on acanthus-scrolled and scallop-shell headed cabriole legs with lion-paw feet, restorations, the front seat- rail replaced, the back right leg spliced, previously with castors, the arms later carved

Lot Essay

The chair's serpentined leg carved with bacchic lion paws and Venus' husk-festooned shell features on the Prime Warden's Chair supplied about 1740 to the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers (illustrated in O. Brackett, An Encyclopaedia of English Furniture, London, 1927, p.157).

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