A SET OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

SEVEN CHAIRS CIRCA 1740, TOGETHER WITH THREE SIDE CHAIRS OF A LATER DATE

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A SET OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Seven chairs circa 1740, together with three side chairs of a later date
Comprising two arm and eight side chairs, each scrolled yoke-form crestrail above a solid baluster-form splat headed by tasselled drapery carving above a drop-in seat covered in patterned green silk, on leaf and ruffle-carved cabriole legs and ball-and-claw feet (10)

Lot Essay

The distinctive tassled design of the back appears on a chair at Charlton House, Kent (illustrated in situ in the Saloon in H.A.Tipping, ed., English Homes of the Early Renaissance, London, n.d. (c.1912), p.403). An armchair from the collection of C.D.Rotch, Esq., and a further set of chairs with Messrs. Gill and Reigate, are illustrated in H. Cescinsky, The Old-World House, London, 1924, vol.II, pp.70-71. A further set of seven chairs was sold Sotheby's London, 25 April 1986, lot 27.