19TH CENTURY

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A WALNUT AND MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR
19TH CENTURY
With tablet toprail above a pierced Gothic back and arms, with solid saddle seat, on octagonal tapering legs, inscribed in chalk '173', the back feet spliced

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Lot Essay

The Grecian tablet-railed hall chair, with Elizabethan Gothic-cusped enrichments, reflects the George IV antiquarian fashion of the 1820s and featured in George Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farmhouse and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833. Its antiquarian style relates in particular to that introduced by George IV's architect Jeffrey Wyatt at Endsleigh, Devon, the Tavistock model farm cottage orné created by John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (d. 1839), where the Duke's library stools featured the same patterned legs (see Christie's Woburn Abbey house sale, 20-21 September 2004, lot 878).

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