A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
Each with a shaped vertical splat with a paper scroll to each side, below a paper-scrolled toprail and flanked on each side by serpentine uprights, above a padded drop-in seat covered in machine-woven needlework of flowers and foliage on a blue ground with a lady picking fruit, the rounded seat-rail above a waved apron, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus knees and C-scroll angles, on pierced claw feet, one chair inscised 'VI', the other 'IIII', both back feet on one chair tipped (2)

Provenance

The late A.C.J. Wall, Esq.
Thence by descent.

Lot Essay

These chairs have pierced claw feet, an extremely rare feature, usually seen on American furniture. Interestingly, there are another pair of chairs in this sale, which also have pierced claw feet (lot 101). They are possibly Irish.
A set of six George II 'red walnut' chairs with pierced claw feet, and formerly in the collection of the late Dame Violet Wills, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 4 May 1991, lot 51.

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