Lot 204
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A SET OF TWELVE LATE VICTORIAN EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING-CHAIRS
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A SET OF TWELVE LATE VICTORIAN EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING-CHAIRS

LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE LATE VICTORIAN EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING-CHAIRS
LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each with an arched toprail with a stylised anthemion cresting and gilt decorated brown leather padded back with a coronet and monogram MH within a decorated border, above a conforming leather seat with an anthemion reflecting the top rail, on foliate-headed turned fluted tapering legs joined by x-shaped stretchers centred by an urn, the decoration refreshed (12)
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Lot Essay

The French-fashioned and Grecian-black chairs, with triumphal-arched and palm-flowered crestings, have leather upholstery bearing a coronet-ensigned MH cipher, which may be that of Admiral Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (d.1921). They may have been commissioned around 1884, at the time of his marriage to Victoria Albert Elisabeth Mathilde Marie Prinzessin von Hessen und bei Rhein. The pattern relates to the 'Neo Grecian' chairs illustrated in the 1881 catalogue of the Shoreditch firm of Charles and Robert Light & Co. (E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 207.)

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