Lot 179
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A SET OF SIX REGENCY MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 1… Read more THE PROPERTY OF LEO SCHOFIELD, A.M. (LOTS 179-183)
A SET OF SIX REGENCY MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX REGENCY MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each of Gothic design, with curved tablet toprail above three pierced arches and a padded seat covered in cream calico, on Gothic panelled sabre legs headed by pierced trefoil angle brackets, the finials and angle brackets largely replaced (6)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 6 June 1996, lot 38.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

This elegant pattern of dining-chair, scrolled in the Grecian manner and carved with Gothic enrichments, typifies the fusion of styles introduced around 1805 by architects such as James Wyatt (d. 1813) and popularised by the Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, issued by George Smith, Upholsterer to George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV. His plate no. 37 illustrates a parlour chair with related 'cut through' and lancet-arched back.

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