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A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY RECLINING ARMCHAIR
With a padded curved back, racheted scroll arms and seat with a sliding footrest with hinged square tapered leg supports, on inverted lotus tapered legs terminating in brass caps and castors, stamped R. Dawes and bearing a brass plate Dawe's Patent, 17 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, London
With a padded curved back, racheted scroll arms and seat with a sliding footrest with hinged square tapered leg supports, on inverted lotus tapered legs terminating in brass caps and castors, stamped R. Dawes and bearing a brass plate Dawe's Patent, 17 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, London
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Robert Dawes is recorded at this address between 1820 and 1839 and patented his "Improved Recumbent Chair" in 1827, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Maney, 1986