A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 169-173)

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A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
Each with pelta-shaped back with eagle's head terminals and scrolled waisted shoe, above a shaped solid seat and reeded front rail, on patera-headed reeded sabre legs, one chair with back right leg spliced at the bottom (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 16 July 1992, lot 27.

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Lot Essay

The design of these seats is related to, and probably derived from, a group of hall benches with more elaborately carved fasces-centred backs. Three pairs are known; one in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (P. Macquoid, Catalogue, 1928, vol. III, p. 69, no. 266), one at Callaly Castle, Northumberland (Christie's house sale, 22-24 September 1986, lot 24), and a pair from Gowerby House, Grantham, offered Phillips, London, 12 February 1991, lot 147.

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