THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TEN GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Including two open armchairs, each with an undulating toprail centred by a foliate spray, with a pierced rocaille scroll and Gothic- arched splat, flanked by stop-fluted uprights, with a close-nailed padded seat, on square chamfered legs joined by H-stretchers, the arms with in-swept arm-supports, scratched on one seat rail 'EMN' and on a second 'HV?', with a roll of conforming fabric (10)

Provenance

Colonel Barham, Hole Park, Cranbrook, Kent and by descent until the late 20th century.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The parlour chairs, with their scalloped and Gothic-fretted splats, correspond to a pattern discussed by J. Kirk in American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830, New York, 1982, fig. 932. Another four chairs of this pattern, but with different legs, were in the possession of Elson of London in 1934 (P. Brown, The Noel Terry Collection: Fairfax House, York, 1987, no. 56).

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