A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR
The padded cartouche-shaped back, arms and serpentine-fronted seat covered in machine-woven needlework with a courting couple in a garden landscape surmounted by foliate scrolls on an ivory background, the outswept scrolled channelled arms on serpentine supports, on scrolled cabriole legs each headed by a cabachon

Lot Essay

This chair in the French manner relates to a design of a 'Modern Chair now in use' in Thomas Malton's Complete Treatise of Perspective, 1775, pl. XXXIII, fig. 131. A similar set of armchairs were sold anonymously in these Rooms, 23 June 1960, lot 90.

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