A SET OF NINE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

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A SET OF NINE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Each with an entwined ribbon vertical pierced splat continuing into serpentine stiles, the toprail carved with foliage, the splat with foliage trails, above a padded drop-in seat covered in gold velvet, on square chamfered legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, minor variations in carving and construction, some replacements including one splat, the front legs, stretchers, shoe and seat-rail on another chair, one back spliced, possibly Scottish (9)

拍品专文

A related parlour chair pattern for a ribbon-scrolled back, with uprights interwoven with the splat, was issued in Robert Manwaring's, The Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion, 1765 (pl. 6).
Another armchair with serpentined back, acanthus-enriched splat and Linnell type arms in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London is illustrated in R. Edwards, A History of the English Chair, London, 1951, fig. 93. A pair of chairs with the same splat design was sold from the collection of the late Dr. Dallas Bache Pratt, Sotheby's New York, 20 January 1995, lot 116.