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A GROUP OF THREE GEORGIAN SIDE CHAIRS
Comprising a Scottish George III laburnum side chair, circa 1770, with serpentine crestrail above a pierced vertical vasiform splat and blue and white trellis-patterned cotton upholstered drop-in trapezoidal seat on squared legs joined by an H-stretcher; a George III mahogany side chair, circa 1770, with back scrolled crestrail above a pierced vertical tapering splat and black leather upholstered drop-in trapezoidal seat on squared legs joined by a box stretcher, stamped VI and with the black ink inscription 145; and a George I red walnut side chair, circa 1720, with yoke-form crestrail above a sold vasiform splat and black leather upholstered drop-in trapezoidal seat on slender cabriole legs with pad feet, with the black ink inscription 245, together with a William and Mary style walnut standing lamp, late 19th century, with a dished circular top and turned adjustable arm on a spiral-turned stem and spreading circular foot, electrified
Standing lamp: 52½in. (133.5cm.) high (4)
Provenance
Acquired from B. Altman Antiques Department, New York, 1960 (the chairs).

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