SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY CANTON

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A CHINESE-EXPORT PADOUK SIDE CHAIR
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY CANTON
With foliage-carved toprail above a shaped vertical splat, with original padouk or alternatively modern oak drop-in seat frames, on cabriole legs and paw feet, incized 'V'

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Lot Essay

This George II 'India-back' parlour chair pattern has an Ionic-scrolled 'vase' splat and lion-paw feet that relate to those of a Cantonese chair dated to the 1730s (C. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 233).

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