A PAIR OF MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with pierced trellis-filled rectangular backs below a pagoda and trellis-carved waved scrolled toprail and between blind fret-carved stiles, each with padded seat covered in polychrome floral petit-point needlework centred by a dragon and on a yellow ground, on blind fret-carved square legs with pierced scrolled angles, repairs to backs and arms, one back leg spliced, seats raised, one with later blocks, one with repair to back foot, one later block inscribed in ink and pencil, The tapestry on this chair was done by Lady (Stuart) Samuel April 10/1934, two angle brackets replaced, restorations, blocks replaced (2)

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A PAIR OF MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with pierced trellis-filled rectangular backs below a pagoda and trellis-carved waved scrolled toprail and between blind fret-carved stiles, each with padded seat covered in polychrome floral petit-point needlework centred by a dragon and on a yellow ground, on blind fret-carved square legs with pierced scrolled angles, repairs to backs and arms, one back leg spliced, seats raised, one with later blocks, one with repair to back foot, one later block inscribed in ink and pencil, The tapestry on this chair was done by Lady (Stuart) Samuel April 10/1934, two angle brackets replaced, restorations, blocks replaced (2)

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These armchairs, with their pagoda-crowned trelliswork splat and blind fretwork in the Chinese manner, relate to a design for 'Gothick Chairs' by Robert Manwaring published in The Chair-Maker's Friend, 1765, pl. 13 (illustrated A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 136). A closely related armchair is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, (Coleridge, op.cit. fig. 135)

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