Lot 18
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A MATCHED SET OF TWELVE MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
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A MATCHED SET OF TWELVE MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS

OF GEORGE II STYLE, 19TH CENTURY

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A MATCHED SET OF TWELVE MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Of George II style, 19th Century
Seven with pearled cabriole legs, five with leaf-carved cabriole legs, each with pierced shell splat and serpentine arms above a red leather-covered drop-in seat, on cabriole legs and scroll feet (12)
Provenance
Bertram Wodehouse Currie (d. 1896), at either Minley Manor, Farnborough, Surrey or 1 Richmond Terrace, London and by descent.
Special notice
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

This George II form of 'shell-fretted' parlour chair was popularised by William de la Cour's, Book of Ornament, issued in the 1740s and relates in particular to the 'Stourhead' suite illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, Dictionary of English Furniture, 1st ed., 1924, vol. I, (p. 236, fig. 90).

The present suite of compass-fronted chairs relates closely to 'a Fine Pair of early George III Writing Chairs' exhibited at the 1977 Grosvenor House Antiques Fair by Glaisher and Nash (advertisement, Connoisseur, June, 1977).

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