ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE
With serpentine-crested padded back and seat covered in close-nailed yellow silk damask, on turned fluted legs with lappeted collars and spreading reeded feet, inscribed in pencil 'Chamber 14 98', and inscribed in paint '884'

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Lot Essay

The chair's antique-fluted and palm-wrapped front leg pattern was invented in 1772 by Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) for columnar-cornered stools (window seats) provided for the Dining-Room designed by the architect Robert Adam (d.1792) at Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, fig. 389). The back leg pattern is also used by Chippendale as seen on the six library chairs made for Brocket Hall (ibid., fig. 151).

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