A PAIR OF EARLY-VICTORIAN OAK HALL CHAIRS

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A PAIR OF EARLY-VICTORIAN OAK HALL CHAIRS
Each with a shaped rectangular back with blind-fretwork, the solid seat above a plain frieze, on square tapering blind-fret legs headed by pinched capitals, on block feet (2)

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VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price and buyer's premium when purchased by non-EU purchasers.

Lot Essay

The oak chairs, designed in the antiquarian manner and enriched with fretted ribbon mosaics in the Elizabethan manner, relate to patterns for banqueting hall chairs issued in Henry Whitaker's The Practical Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Treasury of Designs, 1847 and William Blackie's The Cabinet-Maker's Assistant, 1853.

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