Lot 90
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A SET OF SIX GEORGE II WALNUT DINING-CHAIRS
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A SET OF SIX GEORGE II WALNUT DINING-CHAIRS

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX GEORGE II WALNUT DINING-CHAIRS
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with pierced figure-of-eight toprail centred by a rockwork cresting, above a pierced vertical vase-shaped splat, above a padded seat covered in black leather, on square legs joined by stretchers, three chairs inscribed '5982', two chairs with U.S. restorer's label inscribed 'Fressman'(?), repairs to the legs (6)
Provenance
Fressman(?).
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Lot Essay

The parlour chairs' antique-fluted 'vase' splats are scrolled in the fashionable 1760s Grecian-lyre form, while their bowed ribbons are tied by bubbled and scalloped cartouches and reflect the 1740s 'picturesque' style as revived in George III's reign by The Chair-Maker’s Guide, 1766. This reissued Matthias Darly's, Second Book of Chairs, 1751 (see E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 110).

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