A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA
The padded hump back, arms and seat covered in yellow floral silk damask, the downswept channelled arm-supports above turned stop-fluted tapering legs with patera carvings, brass caps and castors, the back rail and supports strengthened
78½ in. (200 cm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 14 February 1992, lot 129 (£9,350).
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The sofa, which probably accompanied 'Roman' medallion-backed chairs, is designed in the George III French antique manner introduced in the 1770s, and popularised by Messrs, A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s, Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. It is embellished with flowered patera on both its rail and the collars banding its fluted columnar legs beneath palm-wrapped capitals. The pattern of its serpentined arms rising from columnar legs relates to a suite of seat furniture supplied for Chirk Castle, Denbighshire in the 1770s and attributed to the Golden Square firm of John Mayhew and William Ince (C. Gilbert & G. Beard, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Leeds, 1986, p. 596).

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