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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS in the Gothic style, each with pierced, pointed arched back with a pagoda cresting above three arches, with caned seat and arcaded seat-rail on cluster-column tapering legs headed by flowerheads, restorations and traces of earlier decoration, two with minor variations (6)

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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS in the Gothic style, each with pierced, pointed arched back with a pagoda cresting above three arches, with caned seat and arcaded seat-rail on cluster-column tapering legs headed by flowerheads, restorations and traces of earlier decoration, two with minor variations (6)

Lot Essay

A set of eight cream-painted chairs of this model, possibly from the same set, were sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 30 January 1982, lot 141. One chair from the latter group is illustrated in G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 202

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