A MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
A MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR

OF LATE GEORGE III STYLE

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A MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
Of late George III style
The eared serpentine toprail and pierced splat carved with scrolling foliage and geometrically-carved side-supports, above a padded seat covered in blue and white cotton, on square chamfered legs carved with blind fretwork and joined by H-shaped stretchers, the underside inscribed in white paint '166a/1563' and with plastic label printed 'PATTERN', restorations to the toprail, the shoe, three seat-rails and one stretcher replaced, the surface stripped

AND A PROVINCIAL STAINED-FRUITWOOD SIDE CHAIR
Late 18th early 19th Century
The acanthus-carved toprail and pierced scrolled and foliate-wrapped splat above a padded drop-in seat covered in yellow simulated leather, on square chamfered legs, the underside inscribed in white paint '152/213/' and with plastic label 'OM2131', restorations, the back seat-rail, front stretcher and the splat replaced (2)

拍品專文

The same splat pattern to the second chair features on the Chairman's seat of the London Goldsmiths Company illustrated in J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition, New York, 1982, no. 1010.