A GEORGE III MAHOGANY READING-CHAIR

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY READING-CHAIR
The horse-shoe shaped padded arms and rounded seat covered in close-nailed red leather with a rectangular tapering caned back, the back fitted with a ratcheted reading-slope, on ring-turned tapering legs, inscribed in pencil to the underside of the seatrail 'LADY RATCLIFFE', one arm angle-bracket replaced, restorations to the surface of the reading-slope, previously with swivel pen trays

Provenance

Captain Sir Everard Radcliffe, Bt., M.C., Rudding Park, Harrogate, Yorkshire, Christie's house sale, 16 October 1972, lot 68.

Lot Essay

A related reading-chair supplied to Charles, 8th Baron Kinnaird (d. 1826) for Rossie Priory, Perthshire was sold by a member of the Kinnaird Family, in these Rooms, 6 July 1989, lot 123 and again anonymously, in these Rooms, 25 September 1997, lot 92.

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