Lot Essay
The fret pattern for these chair backs featured as 'Chinese Double Brac'd Paleing' in William Halfpenny's Twenty New Designs of Chinese Lattice, 1750.
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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
In the Chinese style, with simulated bamboo frames, the rectangular trellis-filled back above a bowed padded seat covered in yellow floral trellis, the legs headed by angle brackets and joined by a cross-stretcher, replacements to angle-brackets, additional wooden strengtheners to back seatrail and metal strengtheners to reverse of backs (8)
In the Chinese style, with simulated bamboo frames, the rectangular trellis-filled back above a bowed padded seat covered in yellow floral trellis, the legs headed by angle brackets and joined by a cross-stretcher, replacements to angle-brackets, additional wooden strengtheners to back seatrail and metal strengtheners to reverse of backs (8)
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