A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY HALL BENCH

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY HALL BENCH
The shaped arched solid back with scrolling foliage and centred by a blind cartouche, the solid rectangular seat flanked by rounded ends, above a patera-enriched frieze, on rectangular tapering panelled legs with gadrooned feet
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 75 in. (190.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The banqueting hall seat has hermed legs evoking the Roman 'altar' popularised by C.H. Tatham's Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture, London, 1799 (p. 46), while its Grecian palm-flowered pediment and acrotia and frieze of libation-plates or paterae reflect the robust George IV antique style promoted by Henry Whitaker's Designs of Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture in the Most Modern Style, 1825.

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