A MATCHED PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS

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A MATCHED PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Each with a cartouche-shaped padded back, serpentine-fronted seat and arms covered in white and blue-patterned material, the outcurved arms on channelled serpentine supports, the fluted seat-rail with beaded border on ring-turned fluted legs headed by patera panels and spirally-fluted collars, with fluted pinched feet, with later blocks and cross-struts, restorations, one with later feet to the back legs, the other with later spirally-fluted capital and rosette panel to the top of the front legs (2)

Lot Essay

This chair, retaining rococo influence in its scrolled serpentine arm-supports, closely relates to one at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no. W.8-1955) which has the same fluted frieze and patera panels shaped around the corners of the seat-rail (illustrated in M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, p. 142, cat. no. Q/6). A pair of chairs, identical to the one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, was illustrated in the Norman Adams Yearbook 1985, pl. 20 and The Antique Collector, November 1991.

An almost identical chair was sold from the Collis Collection, in these Rooms, 5 June 1997, lot 36.

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