SIX GEORGE III, LATE 18TH CENTURY, TWO LATER

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A SET OF EIGHT MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
SIX GEORGE III, LATE 18TH CENTURY, TWO LATER
Each with generous green leather seat and three vertical splats centred with roundels, on tapering legs
Each 35 in. (89 cm.) high; 23 in. (59 cm.) wide; 19 ½ in. (50 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Georgian chairs acquired from N. Ayer, Bath in the early 1960s. The pair of later chairs made by Mallett, 1972.

Special notice

This lot will be removed to an off-site warehouse at the close of business on the day of sale - 2 weeks free storage

Lot Essay

A closely related set of chairs with the same pattern back is recorded at Northampton Park, Rutland, illustrated in Christopher Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, Leeds, 1978, vol. II, p. 102, fig. 171.

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