LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III BLACK-JAPANNED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED DINING CHAIRS
LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with an inter-laced shield shaped back, down-curved arms and a padded seat on square tapering legs with block feet, two with replacements to seat-rails, the seat-rails numbered in black ink, some losses and repairs (12)

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Lot Essay

These chairs, of French cabriolet form, have backs ribbon-scrolled to form Roman shields and are japanned Etruscan black in harmony with their accompanying card-tables [Lots 48 and 49]. Apollo sunflowers and ribbon-tied palms are fretted in their triumphal-arched and pearl-wreathed backs; while laurels festoon their herm-tapered legs. Their pattern relates to that of mahogany chairs invented by the celebrated architect James Wyatt (d.1813), whose family worked in close collaboration with the firm of Gillow of London and Lancaster. The latter featured a related pattern in their 1788 Sketch Book (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 272).

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