A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SETTEE

CIRCA 1770

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SETTEE
Circa 1770
The padded back, arms and seat upholstered in cream floral pattern silk damask, within a grooved frame, the serpentine back with central patera issuing bell-flower garlands above incurved arms with inscrolled knuckles and downscrolled supports, the shaped front on fan-headed cabriole legs with brass caps and casters, seat now sprung
70in. (178cm.) long

Lot Essay

An armchair of this same design and almost certainly en suite with this settee is illustrated in M. Harris & Sons, The English Chair, London, 1946, p.143, pl.LXXI. Similar examples of this form, derived from French prototypes, were produced by many fashionable London cabinet-makers including Chippendale, Cobb and Linnell.

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