A SET OF EIGHT SCOTTISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

The Property of The late J.O. HAMBRO, Esq., M.C. Sold By Order of the Executors

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A SET OF EIGHT SCOTTISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

Including a pair of open armchairs, each with interlaced pierced shield-shaped back with radiating fan, the arms of out-curved form with scrolled terminals, above a drop-in seat covered in green pink and white flame-patterned lozenge material, the concave-fronted seat-rail on square tapering legs joined by stretchers, restorations to one arm (8)

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These herm-legged chairs have triple-looped 'shield' backs in an elegant antique style that was introduced by James Wyatt (d.1813), architect to King George III's Board of Ordnance, and popularised by A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. A related pattern also featured in the 1788 design book of Gillows of London and Lancaster, and this firm is credited with a related pattern-board, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum and which displays the feather-badge of George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV, in place of the fretted palmette (Country Life, 15 March 1993)

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