TWELVE GEORGE III, INCLUDING TWO ARMCHAIRS, EIGHT LATER

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A SET OF TWENTY MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Twelve George III, including two Armchairs, Eight later
Each with a tablet toprail with trellis pattern enclosing flowerheads, the pierced splat with reeded, entwined supports above a seat upholstered in blue and white cotton, on fluted legs and on stepped feet, restorations and replacements, one armchair with dealers label 'ANTIQUE FURNITURE FROM APTER FREDERICKS LTD 265-267 FULHAM RD LONDON SW3', all the chairs with variations in construction, seven with oak back seat-rails, the other four including the two armchairs with beech seat- rails and with score marks (20)

Lot Essay

The chair's Grecian-tablet rail first featured in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, London, 1973 (pl. XXVII), while its trellised enrichments and entwined-ribbon splats relate to parlour chair patterns illustrated in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite &Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholster's Guide, London, 3rd. ed., 1794.
A set of eight dining-chairs with similar triple pierced splat was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 12 July 1991, lot 304.

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