Live Auction 5969A West Country Tradition - Avon Antiques, Bradford-upon-Avon, Wiltshire
Lot 187

A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed21 May 2009

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GBP 2,750

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A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with solid rectangular panelled back centred by a circle with a parcel-gilt and polychrome-painted heraldic achievement 'DEO NON FORTUNA', the solid seat on roundel-headed reeded x-frame supports joined by a baluster stretcher, on spade feet
The arms are those of Gardiner with Boddam. (2)

Samuel Gardiner, Combe Lodge, Whitechurch, Oxfordshire.

Specialist note

The arms decorating this pair of chairs commemorate the marriage of the Gardiner and Boddam families in 1782, through Samuel Gardiner of Combe Lodge, Whitechurch, Oxfordshire, to Mary Boddam, heiress and niece of Rawson Boddam, Governor of Bombay 1785-88.