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CIRCA 1765
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY COCKPEN OPEN ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1765
With slightly arched rectangular fretwork back, arms and seat covered in close-nailed blue velvet, on chamfered square legs, restorations to splat
CIRCA 1765
With slightly arched rectangular fretwork back, arms and seat covered in close-nailed blue velvet, on chamfered square legs, restorations to splat
Provenance
This Chinese-railed chair relates to a 'garden seat' pattern illustrated in the architect Charles Over's Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic , Chinese and Modern Taste, 1758 (pl. 9). In the 18th Century, this pattern may have been that referred to as 'diamond back' in an invoice for 15 'Mahogany chairs diamond backs' sent in 1761 to William, 5th Earl of Dumfries by the Edinburgh wright Alexander Peter (S. Pryke 'Cockpen Quest' Country Life 29 April 1993, pp.80-81)
Special notice
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