Lot 148
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A PAIR OF MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS, each with scrolled channelled waved toprail centred by a rockwork cabochon clasp above a pierced interlaced C-scroll and stiff-leaf tapering splat with acanthus enrichments, one drop-in seat covered in burgundy leather, the other in copper coloured floral silk, above a waved acanthus apron and on rockwork cabochon-headed cabriole legs and claw feet, incised v and viii respectively, one with label LADY HUNTINGDON, restorations (2)

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A PAIR OF MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS, each with scrolled channelled waved toprail centred by a rockwork cabochon clasp above a pierced interlaced C-scroll and stiff-leaf tapering splat with acanthus enrichments, one drop-in seat covered in burgundy leather, the other in copper coloured floral silk, above a waved acanthus apron and on rockwork cabochon-headed cabriole legs and claw feet, incised v and viii respectively, one with label LADY HUNTINGDON, restorations (2)
Provenance
Lady Huntingdon

Lot Essay

A compass-fronted parlour chair of this pattern is illustrated in H.Cescinsky, English Furniture of the 18th Century, n.d. [1911], vol.II, p.81, fig. 87

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