ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE, CIRCA 1775, REDECORATED

This chair relates to a set likely supplied by Mayhew and Ince to the 3rd Earl of Darnley (d.1781) for Cobham Hall, Kent, sold Christie's London, 19 November 1992, lot 104. It features a similar fluted serpentine seatrail punctuated by roundels as well as fluted turned tapering legs.

This model is also found in the Victoria and Albert Museum and is illustrated, M. Tomlin, Victoria and Albert Museum: Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972, p. 138, Q/6.