MID-18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
MID-18TH CENTURY
Two chairs with needlepoint slip seat covers, four with red leather slip seat covers, back seat rails ash, restorations and replacements to back splats

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Lot Essay

A similar set of chairs sold at Christie’s New York in 2004 from the Estate of Halsted B. Vander Poel, and M. Harris & Sons before that. The wavy pagoda-form top rails, wavy stiles and the use of ash in the seat rails is similar to the chairs possibly created by the pre-eminent firm of Wright and Elwick, cabinet-makers and upholsterers working in Wakefield, Yorkshire. The design was likely inspired by a ‘new pattern’ in Thomas Chippendale’s The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 1754.

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