Lot 31
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A SET OF FOUR REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
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A SET OF FOUR REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

THE CRAFTSMAN E. WOOD, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF FOUR REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
The craftsman E. Wood, early 19th century
Each with tablet toprail above a waisted back with inset shield above a Greek-key shoe and solid dished seat, on incurved panelled legs centred by a patera and joined by a turned baluster stretcher, on ball feet, stamped 'E. WOOD', restorations to the feet (4)
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Lot Essay

These elegant banqueting-hall chairs, with sunk shields intended for painted armorials, fuse the antiquarian 'back-stool' form with the early 19th century French antique fashion promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. Their Grecian tablet rails relate to one of Hope's chair patterns, while their seats' Ionic-scrolled capitals are supported by Grecian scrolled and ribbon-fretted trusses whose libation-paterae ties recall one of Hope's stool patterns inspired by the Roman altar-tripod (ibid., pls. 11 and 12).

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