A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY LIBRARY OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with cartouche-shaped padded back, arm-rests and seat covered in yellow floral damask, the channelled frame headed by an acanthus-clasp, on cabriole legs headed by elongated foliage and on pointed scroll feet, the backs upholstered à chassis, restorations (2)

In their serpnetine form and the continuous moulding that runs along the seatrail and down the leg, these chairs are very similar to a set of five and three stools attributed to William and John Gordon, supplied to Spencer House and now at Althorp (see: A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, pl. 85), and also the pair of chairs that are lot 91 in this sale