Lot Essay
These side chairs, with their serpentine toprails, pierced stretchers and recessed panels of dolphin-scales to the legs, feature ash rails, the use of which as a secondary timber could suggest a north-country or Scottish origin.
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CIRCA 1760
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
CIRCA 1760
Each arched rectangular back and padded seat upholstered in blue cut-velvet, on square chamfered legs carved with foliage on an imbricated ground, joined by pierced stretchers, the feet with foliate collars, with remains of a label 'C.H VILLA LES ..RISES'
36 in. (99 cm.) high; 23 ½ in. (60 cm.) wide; 25 ¼ in. (64 cm.) deep
CIRCA 1760
Each arched rectangular back and padded seat upholstered in blue cut-velvet, on square chamfered legs carved with foliage on an imbricated ground, joined by pierced stretchers, the feet with foliate collars, with remains of a label 'C.H VILLA LES ..RISES'
36 in. (99 cm.) high; 23 ½ in. (60 cm.) wide; 25 ¼ in. (64 cm.) deep
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Amelia Walker
Director, Specialist Head of Private & Iconic Collections
These side chairs, with their serpentine toprails, pierced stretchers and recessed panels of dolphin-scales to the legs, feature ash rails, the use of which as a secondary timber could suggest a north-country or Scottish origin.