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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Each with arched channelled back carved with acanthus husks and foliage enclosing an open back with five turned spindles, with downswept arms and shaped supports above a padded seat covered in yellow trellis material, with dished fluted seat-rail on turned tapering legs, with fluted capitals, on turned feet, one stamped 'RF' (2)
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These handsome library chairs reflect the elegant French 'Cabriole' chair introduced around 1780, while their spindled balustrades evoke the romance of rural furniture associated with George III's Windsor (see Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788). Their spindled rods are reed-enriched in harmony with the 'antique' ornament of the back pilasters and arm-supports, which are flowered with Roman acanthus and antique-fluted like the ribbons banding the hollowed seat-rails and pillared legs. Certain features of the chairs can be related to hall chairs made by the St. Martin's Lane firm of Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1979, vol. II, p. 103, fig. 174).