LATE 18TH 19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Late 18th 19th Century
Each with waved toprail carved with rockwork, with entwined scroll and acanthus-carved vase-shaped splats, the padded drop-in seats covered in green floral silk-damask, on canted square legs headed by pierced fretwork angles and joined by H-shaped stretchers, one angle-bracket replaced, possibly North Country (2)
Late 18th 19th Century
Each with waved toprail carved with rockwork, with entwined scroll and acanthus-carved vase-shaped splats, the padded drop-in seats covered in green floral silk-damask, on canted square legs headed by pierced fretwork angles and joined by H-shaped stretchers, one angle-bracket replaced, possibly North Country (2)
Provenance
By tradition the late Dowager Lady St. Oswald, Nostell Priory, Yorkshire.
Literature
D. Berger, The Dining Room, New York, 1993, p. 116.
D. Hall, 'Diane the Huntress', The World of Interiors, October, 1992, p. 162.
D. Hall, 'Diane the Huntress', The World of Interiors, October, 1992, p. 162.