A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
The pierced foliate-scrolled toprail and splat above a padded seat covered in cream damask, on cabriole legs, the knee and feet wrapped with foliate-scrolled cabochon, the underside inscribed in white paint '127/3561' and with printed plastic label 'PATTERN', restorations to splat
Provenance
The Parker Knoll records state that this chair was acquired from Kennedy, on 26 October 1913, for £17.0.0.
Exhibited
On loan to The Bath Preservation trust until December 1997.

Lot Essay

A related armchair, with splat pattern derived from Thomas Chippendale's, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754, pl. XII, was bequeathed in 1925 to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by the furniture historian Percy Macquoid (R. Edwards, History of the English Chair, London, 1951, fig. 70)

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