SEVEN (INCLUDING ONE ARMCHAIR) GEORGE III, FIVE (INCLUDING ONE ARMCHAIR) 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Seven (including one armchair) George III, five (including one armchair) 20th Century
Each with a foliate-carved shaped toprail, above a pierced Gothic splat and padded seat covered in close-nailed green leather, on square channelled legs joined by H-shaped stretchers, some re-railing to the George III chairs, one splat later (12)

Provenance

Cecil. F. Raphael, Esq.
Mrs. Margaret Alice Raphael, The Grange, Holybourne, Hampshire, (+), sold in these Rooms, 11 May 1967, lot 57 (the seven George III chairs).

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The pattern for the acanthus-wrapped toprail derives from Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd ed., 1762 (pl. 12). A simplified version of this splat pattern features on a chair illustrated in J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition, New York, 1982, no. 972.

A related set of six chairs with similarly-carved splats, but fretwork legs, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 9 July 1999, lot 47.

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