A PAIR OF REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS, each with reeded rectangular tablet back inlaid with a central anthemion between further scrolls, above a spreading stile, reeded bowed seat and plain frieze on sabre legs, restorations, one with inscription to underside, 117-2 and with depository label of TURTISS & SONS Ltd. (2)

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A PAIR OF REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS, each with reeded rectangular tablet back inlaid with a central anthemion between further scrolls, above a spreading stile, reeded bowed seat and plain frieze on sabre legs, restorations, one with inscription to underside, 117-2 and with depository label of TURTISS & SONS Ltd. (2)

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The Graeco-Egyptian style of these chairs, with their Grecian 'tablet' crest rail centred by a palmette and sabre legs, relates to chairs designed by the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d.1831) for his Duchess Street mansion/museum and illustrated in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London 1807, plate XIX figs 3 and 4

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