A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

LATE 18TH CENTURY, TOGETHER WITH TWO SIDE CHAIRS OF A LATER DATE

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Late 18th century, together with two side chairs of a later date
Including two armchairs, each serpentine foliate-carved back centered by a foliate clasp above an entwined ribbon splat, the padded seat covered in floral and striped silk damask on straight molded legs joined by stretchers and with pierced brackets, several bearing the paper labels ...ENPINHAM.../Mr.../Bought of M. PALMER/Dealer in Antique furniture, Old China, pictures and Curiosities/ANTIQUITIES PURCHASED AND COMMISSIONED, one chair marked by hand in black ink on a corner block ...this chair...Kirtly L...Oct. 8 1887 (14)

Provenance

Lord Roundway, Roundway Park, Devizes, Wiltshire.
Claude Leigh, Esq., Foliejon Park, Berkshire, sold Christie's London, 10 December 1953, lot 29 (the twelve eighteenth century chairs) (purchased by Jetley for £1,260).

Lot Essay

The chair backs derive from patterns for 'parlour chairs' featured in Robert Manwaring's Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion, 1765. The intricately woven ribbon splat relates to that on a set formerly in the celebrated collection of Percival D. Griffiths, Esq., and included in the Christie's sale of his effects, 10 May 1939, lot 192. The Griffiths chairs were illustrated by R.W. Symonds in his English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929, p.214, figs.172-173. A set of chairs with related backs was sold by Mrs. Florence Cunard, Christie's London, 4 June 1935, lot 32 (bought by M. Harris & Son, London and illustrated in M. Harris & Sons, The English Chair, 1937, p.130, pl.LX).

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