THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The curved toprail with carved foliate decoration, above a pierced interlaced splat, with drop-in padded seat covered in yellow damask, above a gadrooned apron, with cabriole legs headed by scrolling acanthus leaves, on claw and ball feet with sunk wood and brass castors, four chairs stamped 'NC', one chair inscribed in ink 'MRS LUCK 28.1.91', some minor restorations to the carved details, some blocks later (12)

Provenance

Mrs Luck, 21 January 1891(?).

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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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