CIRCA 1755

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
CIRCA 1755
The shaped toprail above a foliate carved pierced splat with stop-fluted uprights, above a padded serpentine seat on foliate and strapwork cabriole legs with scrolled feet
38 ¼ in. (97 cm.) high; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The chair pattern relates to a design published in the third edition of Thomas Chippendale's, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 1762, no XI and the interlaced pierced and strapwork back corresponds exactly to a chair in the Noel Terry collection, illustrated in P. Brown, The Noel Terry Collection of English Furniture and Clocks, York, 1987, p. 63.

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