TWO GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 153-155)

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TWO GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
Each with shaped toprail above a Chinese-trellis back and a padded drop-in seat covered in yellow material, on square chamfered legs, one chair with pierced angle brackets, the other with H-shaped stretchers, one with brass plaque for 'DRUCE & CO. UPHOLSTERERS & CABINET MAKERS BAKER STREET PORTMAN SQUARE LONDON.W.' (2)

Provenance

W.A. Meredith, Esq. (d. circa 1914) and by descent.

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The chairs have Chinese latticed backs relating to a 'Chinese Double Brac'd Paleing' pattern in W. Halfpenny's, Twenty New Designs of Chinese Lattice, 1750 (pl. 2). The chair-maker Robert Manwaring in his Designs for Chinese Chairs, 1765 (pl. 10) included a railed back chair with this pattern of arched crest-rail. The same fretted rail pattern appeared on a square back armchair sold Christie's South Kensington, 15 March 1995, lot 379.

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