Lot 490
490
A SET OF TEN MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
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A SET OF TEN MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS

EIGHT EARLY 20TH CENTURY AND TWO OF LATER DATE

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A SET OF TEN MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
EIGHT EARLY 20TH CENTURY AND TWO OF LATER DATE
Including two armchairs, each with an interlaced shield shaped back, centred by carved feathers, stiff leaf and husk swags, the armchairs with scrolled rosette terminals and with a bowed padded seat, on channelled square tapering legs joined by stretchers (10)
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Lot Essay

A sketch for a closely related dining chair for the Dining-room at Workington Hall, Cumberland, appears in the 1788 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (L.Boynton (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig 272), and another was reproduced in The London Chair-Makers' and Carvers' Book of Prices, London, 1823.

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