LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR
Last quarter 18th Century
With cartouche-shaped pierced splat and serpentine arms above a padded seat covered in yellow foliate silk-damask and fluted serpentine seat- rail, on channelled cabriole legs

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Lot Essay

This form of cartouche-shaped back with pierced splat appears on a set of mahogany dining-chairs supplied to Spencer House, now at Althorp, Northamptonshire (J. Friedman, Spencer House, 1993, p. 271, fig. 239 [photographs from Country Life, 1926]). A closely related chair was in the James Thursby Pelham Collection, illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 1954, vol. I, p. 297, fig. 225.

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