A SET OF TEN GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
A SET OF TEN GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 80 - 82)
A SET OF TEN GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

CIRCA 1750 - 60

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A SET OF TEN GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
CIRCA 1750 - 60
Each with a serpentine foliate and rosette-carved toprail above a pierced foliate and interlaced strapwork splat, the stiles carved with rockwork, above a padded drop in seat covering in gros and petit-point needlework, eight with dark blue ground, two dark green, on foliate-carved cabriole legs with claw and ball feet, slight variation in the carving, three with yewwood veneer to back seat rails, one inscribed 'NO 53'
38 in. (97 cm.) high; 22¾ in. (58 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep
Provenance
Leopold Hirsch, Esq., 10 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, sold Christie's, London, 7 May 1934, lot 46, a set of sixteen (£861 to Partridge).
The set of ten acquired from Partridge, 25 May 1934, and the needlework seat covers supplied by Partridge 5 June 1934.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The pattern for these chairs relates to designs for 'parlour chairs' featured in Robert Manwaring's Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion, 1765. A chair with the same splat design and similar 'wave' pattern was illustrated in M.Harris & Sons, The English Chair, London, 1946, p.132, pl. LX; it bore the stamp 'RH', possibly that of Richard Hutt, of St. Paul's Churchyard, London, who was active around 1748. Another set of eight differing slightly but bearing the same stamp, was sold privately in New York in 1993.
A related set of eight chairs with the distinctive ribbon splat was sold by Lord Savile, Rufford Abbey, Notts, Knight, Frank and Rutley, 11 October 1938, lot 106, and two of these are in The Noel Terry Collection, Fairfax House, Yorkshire.

LEOPOLD HIRSCH
The Collections of Leopold Hirsh included not only English furniture, but also antiquities, Renaissance works of art, Chinese and European porcelain, tapestries and miniatures. Many of the fine pieces of English furniture were acquired at the sale of Sir Edward J. Dean Paul's collection in 1896, including further chairs relating to the present lot. A number of pieces were illustrated in P. Macquoid and R.Edwards', The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1926, and loaned to exhibitions.

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