SIX REGENCY AND ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, TWO OF LATER DATE, BY JS

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A SET OF EIGHT MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
SIX REGENCY AND ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, TWO OF LATER DATE, BY JS
Each with tablet toprail and X-frame splat centred by a roundel, the reeded arms with reeded supports, above a caned seat, on reeded tapering legs, six stamped 'IH', two stamped 'JS', with four blue trellis-patterned covered squab cushions and five coloured striped silk-covered squab cushions, some rerailing (8)

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Lot Essay

Designed in the early 19th century antique or Grecian manner, the prototype for this 'klismos'-backed chair with patera-centred x-frame splat is derived from a set of armchairs belonging to the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d. 1832). A set of twenty-four similar chairs was supplied to Elizabeth Brooke (d. 1809) in June 1803 for Mere Hall, Cheshire, by Gillows of Lancaster. The latter set was sold by the late Mrs Helen Langford-Brooke, Mere Hall, Cheshire; Christie's house sale, 23 May 1994, lot 106.

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