A PAIR OF ANGLO-INDIAN SOLID ROSEWOOD ARMCHAIRS

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ANGLO-INDIAN SOLID ROSEWOOD ARMCHAIRS
Late 18th/early 19th Century
Each with a C-scroll and acanthus-decorated channelled frame, with a cartouche-shaped padded back, arms and seat covered in yellow material, the top-rail centred by a shell motif, above a shaped apron with gadrooning, on cabriole legs decorated with trailing foliage and bell-husks, later blocks, restorations (2)

Lot Essay

These unusual chairs in the French manner relate in character to the design for a 'cabriole' chair in Thomas Malton's Complete Treatise on Perspective, 1775, p. XXXIII and show similarities to a group of chairs traditionally associated with John Cobb (d. 1778) of St. Martin's Lane, 'upholsterer' to King George III from 1761 in partnership with William Vile (d. 1767).

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