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A SET OF TWELVE EARLY VICTORIAN ANTIQUARIAN OAK DINING CHAIRS
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A SET OF TWELVE EARLY VICTORIAN ANTIQUARIAN OAK DINING CHAIRS

CIRCA 1835-40, AFTER DESIGNS BY HENRY SHAW

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A SET OF TWELVE EARLY VICTORIAN ANTIQUARIAN OAK DINING CHAIRS
CIRCA 1835-40, AFTER DESIGNS BY HENRY SHAW
Each with elaborate pierced top-rail carved with stylised shells, scrolls and foliage flanked by urn finials and barley-twist supports, the central padded back flanked by S-scrolls and covered in close-nailed red repp, on spirally-gadrooned baluster legs joined by X-stretchers with urn finials and spirally-gadrooned feet, with cross strut construction, minor variations in carving and proportions losses and restorations, one raised on castors (12)
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Lot Essay

These antiquarian chairs, presumably commissioned by the 6th Duke of Bedford (d.1839), are richly carved in the Louis XIV fashion promoted around 1700 by the engraved 'Oeuvres' of William III's architect Daniel Marot (d.1752). Their pattern appears to derive from a merging of two chairs 'Of the Time of William 3rd' displayed in the early 19th century in London's St. Catherine's Chapel in Regent's Park, and illustrated in Henry Shaw's Specimens of Ancient Furniture, 1836 (pl.26).
Two further chairs from this suite are on public display in the 4th Duke's Bedroom at Woburn.

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