Lot 76
76
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A SET OF SIX GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS and two similar armchairs, one of later date and the other part-18th Century, each with arched toprail and pierced Gothic vase-shaped splat, the bowed padded seats covered in close-nailed pale green floral damask, on square tapering legs joined by H-shaped stretchers, restorations, two probably rerailed, three with resupported rails, one with repair to toprail (8)

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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS and two similar armchairs, one of later date and the other part-18th Century, each with arched toprail and pierced Gothic vase-shaped splat, the bowed padded seats covered in close-nailed pale green floral damask, on square tapering legs joined by H-shaped stretchers, restorations, two probably rerailed, three with resupported rails, one with repair to toprail (8)

Lot Essay

An East Anglian commode chair with a clearly related splat is illustrated in Dr. B. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 226, fig. EA33. It is possible that the present set, which is of small proportions, was made in one of the large towns in that region.

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