POSSIBLY SCOTTISH, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY COCKPEN ARMCHAIR
POSSIBLY SCOTTISH, LATE 18TH CENTURY
With arched and pierced latticework back above a seat covered in blue floral cotton, on cluster column legs joined by stretchers, reduced in height, later casters

Provenance

Acquired from Charles Saunders Antiques, London, 2007.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

These Chinese-railed chairs have diamond-lozenged backs corresponding to a 'garden seat' pattern illustrated in the architect Charles Over's Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste, 1758 (pl. 9); while their cluster-columned legs can be related to Chinese 'bamboo' furniture, such as the garden chair pattern in William Chambers' Designs of Chinese Buildings, 1757. A suite of chairs of this pattern may have been introduced to Lennoxlove, Haddington in the 18th Century by Lord Blantyre.

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