CIRCA 1790, ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE

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A SET OF SEVEN GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED LADDERBACK SIDE CHAIRS
CIRCA 1790, ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE
Seats distressed (5)

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Please note that there are only five in the lot.

Lot Essay

These are probably among the 'Thirty Cottage Chairs with matted Seats, the whole Japan'd white & Varnishd- at 8/. Each 12.' supplied by Mayhew and Ince in December 1789.

A related chair pattern featured in a 1769 design by Gillows (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig.247).

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