OF GEORGE III STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
OF GEORGE III STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Guilloche carved throughout, with a shield shaped back with reeded and foliate splats, downcurved arms and a bowed seat covered in pink damask, on tapering reeded and foliate carved legs headed by rosette blocks, one chair with a metal label to the underside KJ 7430 (2)

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Lot Essay

These chairs, with their pierced Grecian pelta-shaped backs and palm-flower splats radiating from a sunflower medallion, relate to a design for a 'bar back' sofa, published in all three editions of A.Hepplewhite & Co's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, 1789 and 1794, pl.9 and pl.26.
An example is illustrated in P.Macquoid and R.Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 1954, vol.1, p.294, fig.218

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