TEN GEORGE III, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, TWO SIDE CHAIRS 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
TEN GEORGE III, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, TWO SIDE CHAIRS 20TH CENTURY
Comprising ten side chairs and two open armchairs, each with cartouche-shaped padded backs and serpentine seats covered in green, blue and cream trellis-pattern material, on cabriole legs, later blocks, pegged construction (12)

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Lot Essay

This French form of serpentined 'cabriolet' chair, introduced in the late 1760s by cabinet-makers such as John Cobb (d. 1788), was first engraved in T. Malton's, Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 1775, pl. 33, fig. 131.

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