A PAIR OF IRISH MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

OF GEORGE III STYLE, 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF IRISH MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
Of George III style, 19th Century
Each with waved toprail with acanthus-carved scrolled angles and flowerhead centre above a vase-shaped splat of interlaced scrolls centred by a lozenge, the outscrolled arms with laurel-and-eye terminals, with padded drop-in seat covered in pale cotton, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus carving and claw-and-ball feet, one with repairs to both back legs, restorations and later blocks (2)

Lot Essay

The fretted splat's ribbon-scrolls relate to parlour chair patterns published in Robert Manwaring's The Chair-Maker's Guide, 1766. Manwaring's plate 43 featured one with central lozenge-trellis, reprinted from Matthias Darly's New Book of Chinese, Gothic and Modern Chairs, 1751 (see: E.White, Pictorial Dictionary of British Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 82), and this appears on a group of English and American chairs discussed by Robert Kirk in American Furniture and the British Tradition, New York, 1982, p.873.
A pair of side chairs with very similar backs and Irish-type scroll feet was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 25 February 1993, lot 61.

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