The Property of CHRISTOPHER BUCHAN-HEPBURN ESQ. Removed from Logan House, By Stranraer, Wigtownshire (Lots 181-193)
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

細節
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
INCLUDING ONE ARMCHAIR

The shield-shaped backs with pierced and foliate-carved vertical splats, the red hide-upholstered seats, on moulded square tapering supports and block toes (12)
來源
The late Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn Bt, Smeaton Hepburn House, East Linton, East Lothian, Sold Dowell's Ltd, Sale on the Premises, 8-9th May 1934, Lot 182, thence by family descent to the present owner.

拍品專文

This type of Roman shield-back chair is referred to as a 'Banister back chair' in Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. The ribbon-fret splats of these chairs with their cusped arches related to Hepplewhite's pattern plate 3. A related chair, with similar splat linked by a Gothic arch, is illustrated J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830, New York, 1982, no 1049