A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR AND A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR, en suite, each with arched pierced back with re-entrant corners and filled with Chinese paling, the padded seat covered in pink and white material, on canted square legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, the side chair with split to back (2)

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR AND A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR, en suite, each with arched pierced back with re-entrant corners and filled with Chinese paling, the padded seat covered in pink and white material, on canted square legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, the side chair with split to back (2)

Lot Essay

A set of nine mahogany armchairs of this design and of similarly narrow proportions were sold from the collecetion of the Earl of Shaftesbury, St.Giles's House, Dorset, in these Rooms, 3 May 1951, lot 67. Another set of ten were sold by the Marquess of Downshire, Sotheby's London, 11 July 1986, lot 46.

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