AND A PAIR OF ARMCHAIRS AND A SINGLE CHAIR OF LATER DATE EN SUITE

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A SET OF SEVEN GEORGE III RED-WALNUT DINING-CHAIRS
And a pair of armchairs and a single chair of later date en suite
Each with a shaped toprail above a pierced scrolled interlaced splat centred by a tassle, above a padded seat covered in light-green material, on square chamfered legs, joined by H-shaped stretchers, minor restorations, one chair with newspaper cutting from The Daily Mail, '28 9 29' (10)

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The chair frame, with its straight legs, arched uprights and ribbon-scrolled back, relates to a 'parlour chair' pattern attributed to Thomas Manwaring in A Society of Upholsterer's, Genteel Household Furniture in the Present Taste, 2nd ed., circa 1765 (pl. 17) (C. Gilbert, Genteel Household Furniture, 1978). The ribbon-scrolled splat with tasselled drapery features on a number of chairs discussed by J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830, New York, 1982 (pp. 277-278).

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