A set of nine Victorian mahogany dining chairs

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A set of nine Victorian mahogany dining chairs
Including a pair of scroll armchairs, each moulded balloon-shaped back with curved horizontal splats with lotus ornament, padded balloon-shaped seat, on reeded foliate and ring-turned and tapering legs, bearing an indisctinct stencil on some of the seat rails
Taprell, Holland & Son, 19, Marylebone Street....London, also labels Royal County Depository Reading, Mrs Byron, no.602 and label Property of Carter Jones, variously stamped on the underneath of the seat rail with makers initials J.T. M.M. C.H. (7)

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Please note that there are nine items in this Lot. One chair has a top rail missing.

Lot Essay

Steven Taprell and William Holland are recorded as chair and sofa manufacturers, cabinet makers and upholsterers (c.1803-1835) were succeeded by Taprell, Holland & Son (1835-43). It became one of the greatest furnishing firms of the Victorian period.
Cf. Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Maney, pp. 871-2.
One of their earliest known commissions was for the furnishing of the Anthenaeum club. There followed commissions for other London clubs and country houses including Arundel Castle, Harewood and Ickworth.

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