A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS

CIRCA 1765

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
Circa 1765
Each yoke crestrail carved to the center with a pagoda and flanked by S-scrolling eared corners, over a vertical pierced vasiform splat, the trapezoidal cream-ground floral-print chintz upholstered seat on blind fretwork-carved square legs joined by an H-stretcher (2)

Provenance

Probably Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly, sold Sotheby Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 6-8 January 1955, lot 452.
The Estate of Margaret F. Rudkin, Fairfield, Connecticut, sold Sotheby Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 11 April 1970, lot 122.

Lot Essay

Three chairs of this model are in the public collections of Tryon Palace Historic Sites and Gardens, New Bern, North Carolina (exhibited in the Withdrawing Room). These chairs were presented by William G. Perry and Henry F. du Pont to the Tryon Palace Commission. They had been purchased from the Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly collection which was sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1955 (lot 452A). It is likely that the Roosevelt chairs were sold as the previous lot and therefore originated from the same suite (see provenance listed above).

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