A GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR with bowed rectangular seat covered in yellow silk damask, the waved top-rail carved with a central anthemion and flanked by husk swags, above a pierced tapering splat centred by a ribbon-tie with outswept channelled arms, on square channelled legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, the legs extended by two inches

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR with bowed rectangular seat covered in yellow silk damask, the waved top-rail carved with a central anthemion and flanked by husk swags, above a pierced tapering splat centred by a ribbon-tie with outswept channelled arms, on square channelled legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, the legs extended by two inches

Lot Essay

A side chair of similar design but on fluted cabriole legs was offered anonymously in these Rooms, 16 July 1992, lot 8.
A side chair with identical back, on straight channelled legs minus the scrolled angles, is illustrated in F. L. Hinckley, The More Significant Georgian Furniture, New York, 1990, p. 63, pl. 43, fig. 98. Another close variant, thought to be locally made, is in the Museum de Hansestadt, Lübeck, and is illustrated in F. L. Hinckley, The Directory of Antique Furniture, New York, 1953, p. 107, fig. 306

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