CIRCA 1765

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AN IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1765
The serpentine toprail with foliate-carved corners, with fluted stiles and a center backsplat with pierced cartouche, with open outsplayed armrests, with a powder blue, pink and gray upholstered seat and seatrail, on foliate-headed cabriole legs and paw feet

Provenance

Ambassador Robert M. McKinney, Virginia.

Lot Essay

The chair-back pattern is taken from plate XII in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754. It was a very popular design in Ireland and can be seen on a set of twelve mahogany dining-chairs, circa 1760, previously at Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin (The Knight of Glin and J. Peill, Irish Furniture, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 110, fig. 143).

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