THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with rectangular latticework back with re-entrant corners to the toprail above a horsehair-covered drop-in seat on square legs with pierced corner-spandrels, two with red ink-written label 'Chintz Bedroom', various black stencilled numbers to several chairs and some traces of chalk inscriptions, minor restorations and replacements
38 ½ in. (98 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

There are few chairs recorded with this unusually refined design of back.
A set of six chairs, of apparently identical form, were sold from the
collection of the 5th Earl of Lonsdale at Lowther Castle, Westmoreland,
Maple & Co. Ltd. and Thomas Wyatt House Sale, 29 April - 1 May 1947,
lot 426. The Lowther chairs, probably from the same workshop, also
employed the same design of spandrel-bracket to the top of the legs,
suggesting that these are most likely contemporary.

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