A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS, each with scrolled foliate-trailed toprail flanked by shaped stiles with foliate-trailed panels, above a pierced acanthus-carved baluster stretcher and gadrooned saddle, the padded seat covered in associated gros and petit point floral needlework, on rockwork and foliate-carved cabochon-headed cabriole legs and hairy paw feet, the needlework 18th Century and later, restorations, the carving to the back possibly later, one leg spliced, each with pencil inscription 17168 (2)

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS, each with scrolled foliate-trailed toprail flanked by shaped stiles with foliate-trailed panels, above a pierced acanthus-carved baluster stretcher and gadrooned saddle, the padded seat covered in associated gros and petit point floral needlework, on rockwork and foliate-carved cabochon-headed cabriole legs and hairy paw feet, the needlework 18th Century and later, restorations, the carving to the back possibly later, one leg spliced, each with pencil inscription 17168 (2)

Lot Essay

A related walnut parlour chair with cabochon-enriched knees in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture, n.d., vol. 1, fig. 78
The profile and cabochon-headed legs terminating in bacchic paw feet, in turn, relate to the set of ten chairs supplied to Sir George Savile, 7th Bt., of Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, sold by the Late
J.O. Tanderin Esq., in these Rooms, 8 July 1993, lot 87

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