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A GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR
The cartouche-shaped padded back, arms and serpentine-fronted seat and seat-cushion covered in yellow material, the outcurved channelled arms on channelled serpentine supports, above a fluted and beaded seat-rail, on ring-turned fluted tapering legs headed by patera panels and pinched spirally-fluted collars, with bun feet

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This chair, retaining rococo influence in its scrolled serpentine arm-supports, closely relates to one at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no. W.8-1955) which has the same fluted frieze and patera panels shaped around the corners of the seat-rail (illustrated in M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, p. 142, cat. no. Q/6). A pair of chairs, identical to the one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, was illustrated in the Norman Adams Yearbook 1985, pl. 20 and The Antique Collector, November 1991.

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