AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR

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AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR
The shaped top-rail with C-scrolls and acanthus above a pierced Gothic splat, with channelled stiles, outswept arms and channelled serpentine arm-supports, above a padded drop-in seat covered in dark-red leather, on square legs with H-shaped stretchers, two later blocks

Lot Essay

A similar armchair, with Chippendale 'Gothic' splat, is illustrated in J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830, New York, 1982, pl. 885.

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