Lot 212
212
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY ARMCHAIR, the padded back, arms and seat upholstered in floral pattern green silk, the arms terminating in scrolled paterae and on blind fretwork carved rectangular champfered legs joined by a champfered H-shaped stretcher, on leather casters

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY ARMCHAIR, the padded back, arms and seat upholstered in floral pattern green silk, the arms terminating in scrolled paterae and on blind fretwork carved rectangular champfered legs joined by a champfered H-shaped stretcher, on leather casters

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The pattern of fretwork, with cusped panels and crossed ribbon-ties appear on patterns in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pls. LVII and XXXIII. The feature of acanthus-foliage springing the flower-voluted arms is shared by the famous St. Giles's suite of seat-furniture (see: R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1977, p. 455, fig. 43)

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