A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Property from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth (Lots 526-544)
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, CIRCA 1785

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, CIRCA 1785
Comprising two arm and ten side chairs, each with a pierced oval back with waved stiles radiating from a central medallion decorated with a ram, over a plank seat with loose cushion covered in peach and white cotton above a solid seatrail on tapering very slightly splayed legs (12)

Lot Essay

The form of these dining chairs closely relates to a design (reproduced here) by the London and Lancaster firm of Gillows. A pattern dating to around 1785-90 for a 'New Catherine wheel' chair is in the Estimate Sketch Book now held in the Westminster City archives and reproduced in L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs, 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 269. The same pattern of medallion back featured on a set of japanned chairs with cabriole legs exhibited by Cook of Wigmore Street, London at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, 1958.

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