A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
Each with rectangular padded back and seat covered in yellow floral silk-damask with ivory floral sprays, the pierced fretwork arms raised on channelled square legs joined by H-shaped stretchers, both with front seat-rail in birch and probably replaced, with repairs to left stretcher, later blocks (2)

Provenance

Bought from Norman Adams, February 1979.

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Lot Essay

The chairs have rail-fretted arms in the Chinese manner promoted by W. and J. Halfpenny's Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste, 1751-2, and by M. Darly's New Book of Chinese, Gothic and Modern Chairs, 1750. The style was recommended as 'very proper for a lady's Dressing Room specially if it is hung with India [Chinese] paper' in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director, 1754.
This arms of this pattern of drawing-room chair correspond to that of a set of fretted-back parlour chairs formerly in the collection of the Earls of Craven at Combe Abbey, Warwickshire (H. Avray Tipping, English Homes, 1920, period IV, vol. 1, pl. 232 and sold Sotheby's London, 8 October 1965, lot 137.)

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