CIRCA 1795, VERY PROBABLY SCOTTISH AND POSSIBLY BY CLELAND, JACK AND PATERSON

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A SET OF FOURTEEN GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
CIRCA 1795, VERY PROBABLY SCOTTISH AND POSSIBLY BY CLELAND, JACK AND PATERSON
Including two armchairs, each drop-in seat upholstered in pale green and yellow Empire-patterned chenille, the reeded and channelled frames with patera-carved top rails flanking a veneered central tablet, the mid-rails carved with fleur-de-lis (14)

Provenance

Supplied to the Crum family of Thornliebank House, Glasgow, reputedly in 1796. By descent until 1986. Sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, Important English Furniture, 22 May 1992, lot 280, where acquired by the vendor.

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Lot Essay

When sold at Sotheby's in 1992 this unusually long set of period chairs had recently emerged from a Scottish family collection where they had been since manufacture. By family tradition they were made to celebrate the marriage in 1796 of the Scottish industrialist Alexander Crum and Jane Ewing Maclae, whose Grecian mansion in the centre of Glasgow had just been completed. In the Sotheby's footnote the Scottish furniture historian David Jones suggested they might have turned to the leading local firm of cabinet-makers Cleland, Jack and Paterson for the commission. Given the high quality of the design and execution, Young and Trotter of Edinburgh must also be candidates for makers.

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