Lot 109
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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

CIRCA 1785

Details
A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
CIRCA 1785
With lobed shield-shaped backs carved with flowerheads and foliage with foliate lunette bases, the padded seats covered in foliate-patterned silk brocade on panelled tapering legs, all stamped 'D', two with one rail to the back replaced, some repairs to backs and legs (8)
Provenance
Samuel Messer (bought by him from de Havilland, 8 February 1979, for £12,000.)
Sold from the Samuel Messer Collection; Christie's, London, 5 December 1991, lot 121.
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Lot Essay

This elegant chair-back pattern, with looped ribbons in Roman pelta-shield form relates to a design, in the manner of James Wyatt (d. 1813,) in the 1788 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, no. 272). A related back, with additional carving, features on chairs provided in the 1780s for Friedrich Wilhelm II and inventoried as 'English' at Berlin Castle in 1793.
An identical armchair, possibly one from the present set, is illustrated in F. Lewis Hinckley, Hepplewhite, Sheraton & Regency Furniture, New York, 1987, p. 61, fig. 83-84.
A set of four dining-chairs of the same model as the present chairs are included as lot 91 in this sale.

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