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    Sale 9826

    PIPEWELL HALL, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND BOSTOCK HOUSE, CHESHIRE

    London, South Kensington

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    21 April 2004

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    • A SET OF FOUR REGENCY MAHOGANY
    Lot 194

    A SET OF FOUR REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

    Price realised

    GBP 7,170

    Estimate

    GBP 7,000 - GBP 10,000

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    A SET OF FOUR REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
    Each with an unusual tablet-shaped back centred with the France-Hayhurst painted crest flanked by anthemion detail, with figured mahogany solid seat and Greek key rails, on sabre legs headed with roundels
    36in. (92cm.) high, 18½in. (47cm.) wide, 16in. (41cm.) deep (4)

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    Lot Essay

    The banqueting hall chairs were commissioned by James France of Bostock Hall, Cheshire and bear his arms of a 'hurst' with a shield charged with a fleur-de-lis and hanging from a tree. Their Grecian-scrolled form, enriched with ribbon-frets and embossed libation patterae, reflects the antique fashion promoted by the connoisseur Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807; while their triumphal palm-flowered 'Roman' tablet rails correspond to one of his girandole patterns (pl.43).
    Similarly scrolled and sunk-fluted legs feature on chairs bearing the brand of the B.Harmer, who may have worked as a journeyman for a firm such as Messrs Elward, Marsh and Tatham (C. Gilbert,Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p.33 fig 477).

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