TWO GEORGE IV CIRCA 1820, THE OTHERS OF A LATER DATE

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A SET OF TWELVE MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
TWO GEORGE IV CIRCA 1820, THE OTHERS OF A LATER DATE
The two early chairs upholstered in a different fabric, all chairs with scroll top rail and lotus leaf on turned tapering legs (12)

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Lot Essay

The French-fashioned dining chairs have palm-flowered Grecian pediments in the antique fashion popularised by R . Ackermanns, The Repository of Arts, 1828; while their pattern of palm-wrapped columnar leg relates to those of a Grecian-scrolled chair in J.C.Loudon's, The Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833 (no. 1895).

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