A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
Late 19th/Early 20th Century
Each with a waved foliate-carved crestrail above a similarly-carved pierced vasiform splat above a serpentine padded seat covered in crimson silk damask on square legs (12)
Provenance
Acquired from Jas. A. Lewis & Son, Inc., New York, 17 January 1949, $6,000.

Lot Essay

One from a set of six chairs of precisely this design (and called 18th century) from the collection of H.H. The Maharani of Baroda is illustrated in M. Jourdain and F. Rose, English Furniture: The Georgian Period (1750-1830), London, 1953, pl.74, fig.35.

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