LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with a cartouche-shaped pierced back with triple splat, the outcurved arms on channelled supports, with brown and ivory striped silk, on square tapering channelled legs and tapering spade feet (2)

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Lot Essay

The oval medallion and patera-carved back and tapering panelled legs in imitation of 'Antique' herms is designed in the Roman style popularised by the published designs of Sheraton and Hepplewhite, c. 1790. A mahogany armchair of this pattern was sold from The Moller Collection, Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1993, lot 96. The latter chair was illustrated in R. W. Symonds, Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, London, 1955, p. 100, pl. 18.

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