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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III SCOTTISH FRUITWOOD DINING-CHAIRS including a apir of open armchairs, each with waved toprail with upturned channelled finials, above a pierced interlaced-scroll vase-shaped splat, the drop-in seats covered in modern floral needlework, two in printed cotton, on canted square legs headed by pierced C-scroll angles, restorations to splat, one leg and one stile spliced, formerly with side angle-brackets (8)

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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III SCOTTISH FRUITWOOD DINING-CHAIRS including a apir of open armchairs, each with waved toprail with upturned channelled finials, above a pierced interlaced-scroll vase-shaped splat, the drop-in seats covered in modern floral needlework, two in printed cotton, on canted square legs headed by pierced C-scroll angles, restorations to splat, one leg and one stile spliced, formerly with side angle-brackets (8)

Lot Essay

A set of chairs which with this splat design was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 2 October 1992, lot 106. It incorporated five George III laburnum chairs. This is a wood almost exclusive to Scottish chair-making which suggests that the splat, which is loosely based on the designs of Robert Manwaring, is one that was particularly popular in Scotland.

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