Lot Essay
This pattern of parlour chair, with Gothic ribbon-fret splat and hermed legs, is copied from pl. 12 of Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A SET OF TWELVE LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
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A SET OF TWELVE LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
BY GILLOWS OF LANCASTER
Including a pair of open armchairs, each with arched foliate-carved toprail above the pierced splat with trefoil arches and scrolling foliage, the out-turned arms with acanthus scroll-ends above the seat covered in close-nailed red leather and on square tapering legs headed by husk-trailed and bead-and-reel angles, terminating in pad feet, eight incised M, four D, four inscribed in pencil Clearance, two CF and one armchair inscribed H. Purdue 1897, all side chairs twice stamped GILLOWS (12)
BY GILLOWS OF LANCASTER
Including a pair of open armchairs, each with arched foliate-carved toprail above the pierced splat with trefoil arches and scrolling foliage, the out-turned arms with acanthus scroll-ends above the seat covered in close-nailed red leather and on square tapering legs headed by husk-trailed and bead-and-reel angles, terminating in pad feet, eight incised M, four D, four inscribed in pencil Clearance, two CF and one armchair inscribed H. Purdue 1897, all side chairs twice stamped GILLOWS (12)