A SET OF SIX MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

OF GEORGE III STYLE, 19TH CENTURY

细节

A SET OF SIX MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Of George III style, 19th Century
Each with a waved toprail with foliage points above a pierced foliage- carved interlaced vertical splat, flanked on each side by wavy uprights, with interlaced bands, above a padded seat covered in petit point needlework, each embroidered with different initials 'VB 1926', 'VB 1927', 'VB 1928', 'VB 1930' and 'VB 1934', with flower-filled vases, on square chamfered legs, carved with interlaced bands, with depository label for 'WHITE & CO., LTD. ... WINCHESTER', stamped 'MRS. V C W BOGER' (6)

来源

Mrs. V. C. W. Boger, Wolsdon House, Antony, Cornwall.

拍品专文

Described as a 'new-pattern', the chair-back, with scalloped crest, serpentined pillars enriched with ribbon-guilloche and fretted splat wrapped by Roman acanthus, featured in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754, pl.15.
A very similar open armchair, one of a pair, is illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. I, p. 283, fig. 180. It belonged to Henry Hirsch and was sold by him, in these Rooms, 10 June 1931, lot 64. The pair was also described by H. Avray Tipping in Country Life, 25 December 1920.

According to family tradition, the pair of armchairs that was originally with the present lot, was sold earlier this century.