Lot 126
126
THE PROPERTY OF A COMPANY
A PAIR OF DUTCH MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS, each with shaped arched channelled back carved with central foliate spray, the padded back and seat covered in close-nailed olive velvet above a dished channelled seat-rail and on cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet, later blocks, mid-18th Century, (2)

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A PAIR OF DUTCH MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS, each with shaped arched channelled back carved with central foliate spray, the padded back and seat covered in close-nailed olive velvet above a dished channelled seat-rail and on cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet, later blocks, mid-18th Century, (2)

Lot Essay

The form of this chair is a development of an English type dating from the first half of the 18th Century, but now with upholstered back. A chair of the same design is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, (no: R.B.K. 16552) and is illustrated in R. Baarsen, Dutch Furniture 1600-1800, Amsterdam, 1993, pp. 106-107

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