A SET OF EIGHT VICTORIAN MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

OF GEORGE III STYLE

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A SET OF EIGHT VICTORIAN MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Of George III style
Including two open armchairs, the pierced shield backs headed by husks, terminating in semi-circular patera, the close-nailed red leather padded seat above channelled square tapering legs with stretchers, some with later back seat-rails, one with damaged splat, restorations (8)

來源

Possibly acquired through the marriage of Georgiana Anson in 1846, the daughter of Gen. Sir William Anson, who was great grandfather of the Rev'd. William Thornton, Kingsthorpe Hall, Northampton.
Thence by descent.

拍品專文

The chairback, of Grecian pelta-shield form with palm-flower splats radiating from a sunflower medallion, derives from a 'bar-back' sofa pattern published in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Uphosterer's Guide, 1788, (pl. 26), and on a 'Camel back stay rail' chair featured in the late 1780s archives of Gillows of London and Lancaster (L. Boynton (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 260). A chair with closely-related back is illustrated in J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830, New York, 1982, no. 1053.