ONE EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE OTHER LATE 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LARGE MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
ONE EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE OTHER LATE 20TH CENTURY
Each with a tablet toprail above an X-shaped splat and solid shaped seat, with reeded arm-supports and apron, on ring-turned tapering reeded legs, brass caps and castors, the castors on the Regency chair stamped 'COPE & COLLINSON PATENT', the Regency chair with plaque engraved 'This chair was used by three generations of Oakley's given to E.B. Gillett, in rememberence of John H. Oakley to whom he was pupil and partner by Ida Oakley, 1947.', one front leg replaced on the Regency chair (2)

Provenance

The Oakley family and by descent to John H. Oakley.
Given by Ida Oakley to E.B. Gillet, 1947.

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Lot Essay

The chairs' Grecian klismos backs, with central paterae, derive from a French antique fashion introduced around 1800 by the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d. 1831) and featured in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl. 11, figs. 3 and 4). Parlour chairs, with related backs, were supplied to Mere Hall, Cheshire in 1813 by Messrs. Gillow of London and Lancaster (see Christie's house sale, Mere Hall, 23 May 1994, lot 106).

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