POSSIBLY SCOTTISH

細節

A SET OF TEN GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Possibly Scottish
Comprising two armchairs and eight dining-chairs, each with a rectangular back with three spindle vertical splats, above a padded rectangular seat covered in brown leather, on square tapering legs joined by cross stretchers, some later blocks, two stretchers and one seat-rail replaced, one toprail replaced and the original toprail loose (10)

來源

James Scott (d. 1912), Dundee.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

拍品專文

The spindle-back chair was made fashionable for garden summer houses and banqueting rooms by William Chambers' Design of Chinese Buildings, 1757 but the elegant form of these herm-footed chairs relates to a pattern illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793. In view of their provenance and relationship to the spindled and Chinese-fretted chairs attributed to Messrs Young, Hamilton and Trotter, it is possible this set was executed in Edinburgh.