EIGHT GEORGE III, CIRCA 1800, TWO LATE 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TEN MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
EIGHT GEORGE III, CIRCA 1800, TWO LATE 20TH CENTURY
Each with a shaped inlaid tablet back above a ribbon-tied Prince of Wales plumed splat and close-nailed overupholstered tan leather seat flanked by waved molded arms and raised on fluted ring-turned tapering legs, one back seatframe inscribed in pencil 'G JACKSON ESQ' (10)

Provenance

Possibly G. Jackson, Esq. Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, London, 15 July 1976, lot 132 (eight chairs).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 27 January 1990, lot 79 (eight chairs).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 20 November 1992, lot 121 (eight chairs).

Lot Essay

The parlour chairs, conceived in the French 'cabriolet' fashion, have ribbon-banded tablets of fine figured mahogany let into their Grecian cut-corned tablet rails above splats that are carved with beribboned feathers. The latter, serving as the badge of the Prince of Wales, was introduced around 1780 at Buckingham House (now Palace) and popularized by Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker's and Upholsterer's Guide 1788; while a pattern for a chair with Grecian tablet cresting featured in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793 (pl. 49).

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