ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III CREAM AND TURQUOISE-PAINTED OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Attributed to Mayhew and Ince
Each with padded back, arms and seat covered in pink silk velvet, the medallion-shaped channelled back centred by a husk-wrapped patera, above outcurved arms with scroll terminals on shaped channelled supports, above a fluted serpentine seatrail centred by a patera, on turned tapering fluted legs and tapering feet, redecorated, with traces of earlier gilding, with exposed back strut and cramp-cuts (2)

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拍品專文

The back of the 'cabriolet' chair is embellished with a laurel-festooned medallion in the antique manner popularised by the architect Sir William Chambers and introduced in the early 1770s. It features for instance on chairs likely to have been supplied for Cobham Hall, Kent, by Messrs Mayhew and Ince (sold anonymously in these Rooms, 19 November 1992, lot 104). An armchair of this present pattern was illustrated in D. Nickerson, English Furniture of the 18th Century, London, 1963, p. 96, fig. 102, and sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 2 February 1995, lot 367.