MID-18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with double-arch back centered by dished rockwork above a pierced interlaced splat, above a padded drop-in seat covered in later horsehair, on leaf-carved cabriole legs and pad feet, the seat rails numbered I-VI (6)

Provenance

Bought from Richard Miles Antiques, June 1998.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The parlour chairs' 'vase' splats, with looped ribbon centres, relates to a pattern in Robert Manwaring's, Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion, 1765 (pl. 9). A chair and armchair of this present pattern are in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the 18th Century, vol. II, figs. 25 and 24; and J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830, New York, 1982, fig. 938).

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