A PAIR OF GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

CIRCA 1765

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1765
Each cartouche padded back within a molded frame headed by a foliate spray the scrolled arms flanking the padded seat and foliate-carved rail, on cabriole legs headed by cartouches and pendant husks and with scroll feet, covered in blue-ground floral silk, the seatrails with baton carrying holes

Lot Essay

These elegantly-serpentined chairs, designed in the Louis XV manner, relate to the fashionable 'cabriolet' chairs of the 1770s such as Thomas Malton illustrated in his Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 1775, pl. XXXIII, fig. 131. They also relate to a suite of furniture commissioned in 1770 by Elizabeth Cust for Erddig, Wrexham, from the court cabinet-maker, John Cobb (d.1788).

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