CIRCA 1760, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1760, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE
Each padded back, arms and seat covered in buttoned antique hand-dyed orange linen, on square blind fret legs with pierced fretwork brackets, on block feet with later brass castors, one chair with lower half of legs replaced
Each 36 in. (99 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) wide; 29 ¾ in. (75.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Hawker Trading, September 2014.

Special notice

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Benedict Winter Associate Director, Specialist

Lot Essay

The fretwork to the legs related to a 1753 pattern published in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754 (pl. 36)

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