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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY HALL BENCH
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY HALL BENCH

CIRCA 1770

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY HALL BENCH
CIRCA 1770
With solid rectangular seat above a plain frieze, on square fluted legs and spade feet, with printed label 'QQ2681'
18½ in. (47 cm.) high; 76 in. (193 cm.) wide; 14½ in. (37 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) is credited with the early 1770s design for a related garden seat with antique-fluted herm pilaster legs terminating in hermed stump pedestals (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, vol. II, London, 1978, fig. 375).

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