A MINIATURE CHINESE-EXPORT IVORY OPEN ARMCHAIR in the George III Chippendale style, the pierced rectangular back with waved toprail above a pierced vase-shaped splat carved with acanthus, the panelled stiles decorated with leaf and pendant ribbon, with scroll-arms on carved supports and on canted square legs headed by pierced scroll brackets and inset with ropetwist, joined by an H-shaped stretcher, 18th Century

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A MINIATURE CHINESE-EXPORT IVORY OPEN ARMCHAIR in the George III Chippendale style, the pierced rectangular back with waved toprail above a pierced vase-shaped splat carved with acanthus, the panelled stiles decorated with leaf and pendant ribbon, with scroll-arms on carved supports and on canted square legs headed by pierced scroll brackets and inset with ropetwist, joined by an H-shaped stretcher, 18th Century
5½in. (14cm.) wide; 10in. (25.5cm.) high

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The splat is a variation on a 'medallion' design engraved in Robert Manwaring's Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion, 1765, pl.9 (left).

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