Lot 107
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY DOUBLE-CHAIRBACK HALL BENCHES, each with shaped channelled toprail incorporating two beaded channelled roundels carved in relief with an armorial device with a stork holding a fish in its beak, within a ribbon-tied laurel-wreath, flanked by patera-headed fluted spreading pilaster-strips, the arms with similar beaded patera roundels, above a double dished seat with fluted seat-rail, on floral patera-headed square tapering legs

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY DOUBLE-CHAIRBACK HALL BENCHES, each with shaped channelled toprail incorporating two beaded channelled roundels carved in relief with an armorial device with a stork holding a fish in its beak, within a ribbon-tied laurel-wreath, flanked by patera-headed fluted spreading pilaster-strips, the arms with similar beaded patera roundels, above a double dished seat with fluted seat-rail, on floral patera-headed square tapering legs
54in. (137cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

While patterns for chairs with tripod-herm feet and Grecian-medallion backs feature in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guides, 1789-94, these seats have patera finials, which derive from an altar-like stool illustrated in the architect Charles Heathcote Tatham's, Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture Drawn in Rome, 1799, pl. 46. The unidentified family crest of a stork's head is displayed in triumphal laurel-wreaths.

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