Lot 1213
1213
A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

CIRCA 1830

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
CIRCA 1830
Each with gadrooned scrolled toprail above a scrolled lyre-shaped back, on squared octagonal tapering legs headed by paterae (2)
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Lot Essay

These hall chairs, with their Grecian tablet top rail and sabre legs, can be related to chairs illustrated in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, plate XIX, fig. 4 and plate XLVI, fig. 2. A similar pair of hall chairs were sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 11 April 1991, lot 49.

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