CIRCA 1800

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A SET OF FOURTEEN REGENCY MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
CIRCA 1800
Including a pair of armchairs, each with a curved tablet toprail above slender turned, reeded and foliate-carved spindles, the padded seats covered in green buttoned and close-nailed cotton, on tapering turned and reeded legs, some with paper labels typed 'Westmacott / J92763 / 23.10.64', some bearing Apter Fredericks' trade label, repairs and restoration
The armchairs 33 ½ in. (85 cm.) high; 22 ½ in. (57 cm.) wide; 21 in. (54 cm.) deep

Provenance

Westmacott, circa 1964.
With Apter Fredericks Ltd., London.

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Lot Essay

The pattern for these chairs was invented by Thomas Sheraton who illustrated a design featuring tapering reeded and turned spindles as found on the present lot in The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793 (illustrated E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 92, plate XXVI).

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