A SET OF SIX GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS each with rounded padded rectangular seat covered in close-nailed brown hessian, with shield-shaped pierced black supported by tapering reeded uprights with foliate capitals springing from a foliate demi-lune, on square reeded tapering legs joined by H-shaped stretchers and A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS covered en suite each with arched pierced splat adorned with husk garlands and with panelled foliate supports upsringing from a demi-lune flower, the scrolled arms with stiff-leaf terminals above channelled square tapering legs headed by floral patrae, joined by an H-shaped stretcher, five of the dining chairs with partially resupported seat-rails, one armchair with two seat-rails replaced (8)

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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS each with rounded padded rectangular seat covered in close-nailed brown hessian, with shield-shaped pierced black supported by tapering reeded uprights with foliate capitals springing from a foliate demi-lune, on square reeded tapering legs joined by H-shaped stretchers and A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS covered en suite each with arched pierced splat adorned with husk garlands and with panelled foliate supports upsringing from a demi-lune flower, the scrolled arms with stiff-leaf terminals above channelled square tapering legs headed by floral patrae, joined by an H-shaped stretcher, five of the dining chairs with partially resupported seat-rails, one armchair with two seat-rails replaced (8)

Lot Essay

The pattern for this elegant 'parlour' chairback of Grecian pelta-shield form with radiating palmette-like splats appears in all three editions of A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, 1789 and 1794, pl. 9, chair Z. The armchair is very similar in design to a pair illustrated in C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, The Normal Adams Collection, 18th Century English Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 80, pl. 11

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