A MATCHED SET OF TWELVE MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

SIX GEORGE III, FOUR OF A LATER DATE AND TWO VERY SIMILAR GEORGE III ARMCHAIRS

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A MATCHED SET OF TWELVE MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Six George III, Four of a later date and two very similar George III armchairs
Each with channelled guilloche-carved oval frame centred by a pierced oval patera supported by channelled waisted uprights, above a rounded padded seat covered in close-nailed green and yellow horsehair, on square tapering channelled legs headed by flower-heads and with block feet, restorations, one armchair with slightly bowed front seatrail, one side chair originally an armchair and largely re-railed, restorations (12)

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A pattern for a related medallion-back chair, with central sunflower, appears in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pl. 6. The same patterned back appears on a chair of the 1780s at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, p. 135, no. P/12).
A set of seven chairs, with similar backs, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 5 May 1988, lot 62.