Lot 48
48
AN ANGLO-DUTCH MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC WING-BACKED OPEN ARMCHAIR with hinged rectangular padded back and hinged seat covered in close-nailed brown leather, the waved top-rail carved with rockwork and laurel leaves, with scroll arms, on cabriole legs and pad feet, with break to one front leg and repair to the other front leg, restorations, opening to become a daybed with conforming upholstery, mid-18th Century, the legs possibly later

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AN ANGLO-DUTCH MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC WING-BACKED OPEN ARMCHAIR with hinged rectangular padded back and hinged seat covered in close-nailed brown leather, the waved top-rail carved with rockwork and laurel leaves, with scroll arms, on cabriole legs and pad feet, with break to one front leg and repair to the other front leg, restorations, opening to become a daybed with conforming upholstery, mid-18th Century, the legs possibly later

Lot Essay

A related mahogany chair is at Padworth House, Buckinghamshire, and is illustrated in R.Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p.269, fig.14. A single chair of a similar model was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 15 November 1990, lot 50 and a pair 14 November 1991, lot 122.

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