A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS, each with pierced rectangular back with stepped toprail flanked by flowerheads, above a panel-carved with drapery swags and an arch centred by trellis, with turned supports, the serpentine seats covered in red and yellow striped material, on turned tapering legs, several with later blocks and repairs to tops of back legs, three partially re-railed (8) | Christie's

Lot 67

A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS, each with pierced rectangular back with stepped toprail flanked by flowerheads, above a panel-carved with drapery swags and an arch centred by trellis, with turned supports, the serpentine seats covered in red and yellow striped material, on turned tapering legs, several with later blocks and repairs to tops of back legs, three partially re-railed (8)

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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS, each with pierced rectangular back with stepped toprail flanked by flowerheads, above a panel-carved with drapery swags and an arch centred by trellis, with turned supports, the serpentine seats covered in red and yellow striped material, on turned tapering legs, several with later blocks and repairs to tops of back legs, three partially re-railed (8)

Lot Essay

The design of the splat is slightly adapted from plate XLIX (top left) in the Appendix of Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, London, 1793 (and subsequent editions of 1794 and 1802)

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