A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

CIRCA 1790

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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Circa 1790
Each with a shaped channelled toprail above a pierced splat with an oval ribbon medallion above a fluted urn flanked on each side by twisted ribbon, the serpentine stiles with shaped lower half, above a padded seat covered in light green silk damask, on square tapering fluted legs and spade feet, upholstered ears on the seat-rails later
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Lot Essay

This unusual chair pattern incorporating ribbon-twist back and rippled stiles does not relate to any known patterns published in the late eighteenth century. Its heavily constructed elm seatrails, and distinctive splay to the back legs suggest that these were possibly manufactured in the Northern Counties, by a firm such as Gillows of Lancaster.

A pair of armchairs of this design and possibly from the same set was sold from the collection of James Hall, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 24-26 October 1946, lot 164.