OF GEORGE II STYLE, LATE 19TH 20TH CENTURY

The drawing room chairs have serpentined frames in the mid-18th Century French 'picturesque' manner, and their truss-scrolled legs are enriched with golden Roman acanthus cartouches and palms issuing from the voluted feet. Chairs of this pattern, reputed to have been introduced to the White House, Washington D.C. in 1885, when Grover S. Cleveland was President of the United States, were sold Sotheby's New York, 29 October 1983, lot 77 (a set of six $44,000 inc. premium). Mahogany parlour chairs with similar golden foliage were supplied in the mid-1750s for Holkham Hall, Norfolk (R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1977, p. 144, fig. 108).