A SET OF SIX IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

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A SET OF SIX IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Each with a serpentined toprail centred by drapery, above a pierced vertical interlaced splat and a padded seat covered in close-nailed machine-made crewelwork with flowers and a tiger, on cabriole legs headed by cabochons and acanthus, with scrolled feet, four chairs re-railed, replacements to one splat (6)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 4 July 1997, lot 65 (£11,500).

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Lot Essay

A claw-footed suite of this pattern, comprising two settees and six chairs, was in the possession of William Hesketh Lever, later 1st Viscount Leverhulme (d. 1925), founder in 1913 of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight (H.Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 3 vols, 1911, vol. II, pp. 182-3). The same patterned back also featured on a set of six claw-footed chairs sold from the Holme collection at 'Formalain', by Morrison, McChlery & Co., 17-20 October 1938, lot 60.

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