A GEORGE II MAHOGANY STOOL

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY STOOL
The shaped padded rectangular seat covered in close-buttoned dark-red floral damask, on cabriole legs headed by a central shell-motif and stylised acanthus leaf with a pendant husk, the angle-brackets decorated with similar acanthus leaves, on scrolled feet, one cross- strutt replaced
23in. (58.5cm.) wide; 18in. (46cm.) high; 19in. (48cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The stool is serpentined in the George II manner and its carved enrichments, with shells framed by Roman acanthus, relates to the Warden's chair supplied for the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers circa 1740 (O. Brackett, An Encyclopaedia of English Furniture, London, 1927, p.157).

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