Lot 133
133
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A SET OF TEN MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS, SIX GEORGE III INCLUDING ONE OPEN ARMCHAIR, FOUR OF LATER DATE INCLUDING ONE ARMCHAIR, each with pierced oval back filled with stylised feathers with acanthus terminals, the serpentine padded seat covered in close-nailed blue leather, and on channelled square tapering legs joined by H-shaped stretchers and with block feet, with later blocks, restorations to backs and one leg spliced, two with paper depository labels numbered 53 and 87 (10)

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A SET OF TEN MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS, SIX GEORGE III INCLUDING ONE OPEN ARMCHAIR, FOUR OF LATER DATE INCLUDING ONE ARMCHAIR, each with pierced oval back filled with stylised feathers with acanthus terminals, the serpentine padded seat covered in close-nailed blue leather, and on channelled square tapering legs joined by H-shaped stretchers and with block feet, with later blocks, restorations to backs and one leg spliced, two with paper depository labels numbered 53 and 87 (10)

Lot Essay

Chippendale, Haig and Co. of St. Martin's Lane designed related parlour chairs with medallion-framed Grecian palmettes of this model for Mersham, Kent, in 1772. Described as having 'compass backs', they were upholstered in 'blue morrocco leather and finished with double rows brass nails' (see: P. Thornton, 'The Furnishing of Mersham-le-Hatch', Apollo, Part II, June 1970, p. 444, fig. 6). These chairs feature the acanthus-tipped palmettes found on chairs supplied in the 1770s for Ham House, Surrey (see: P. Thornton, 'Ham House', Furniture History, 1980, fig. 188).

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