A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS

IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, CIRCA 1825

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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
In the manner of Gillows, circa 1825
Each incurved tablet crestrail with scrolled acanthus rounded corners on reeded waisted uprights, the buttoned and close-nailed burgundy leather-upholstered U-form seat above a plain apron, on anthemion-headed faceted tapering legs with ball feet, with the white chalk inscription 1258 (8) (8)

Lot Essay

The design of the seat-rail and knees of this set of chairs, with the anthemion carving to the angles relate them to the set of twenty-four chairs supplied to William, 2nd Baron Bolton for Hackwood, sold Christie's House Sale, Hackwood Park, 20th-22nd April 1998, lot 158.
Although the Hackwood set are unusually early, a Gillows Memorandum lists them in May 1813, they are an ornate version of a type of dining chair that was to dominate Gillows production in the 1820's and 1830's.

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