A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
CIRCA 1740

Each yoke-form back centering a scaled scallop crest above a shaped solid splat with diapered and foliate panel, the padded seat covered in later petit point needlework depicting courting couples in eighteenth century costume, on cabriole legs headed by shells and acanthus and with claw and ball feet, the seat rails bearing metal plaque numbered '19' or '20' (2)

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 23 January 1993, lot 129

Lot Essay

An armchair of this model, possibly from the same set, was sold in these Rooms, 17 October 1992, lot 291. These similar chairs belonged to the Earl of Iveagh, Elveden Hall, Norfolk, sold Christie's, 21-24 May 1984, lot 460 (two subsequently resold Sotheby's London, 8 May 1992, lot 219), and another of this model is illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, vol. II, p. 46, fig. 35. All of these relate closely to a set formerly at Worsborough Hall, Barnsley, Yorkshire, and later at Colonial Williamsburg (sold Christie's New York, 23 October 1982, lots 184 and 185). Other chairs from this set are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.