Live Auction 1186The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.
A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
Lot 10

A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed19 September 2013

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GBP 3,250

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each with arched waisted back carved with a standing lion above a vacant oval cartouche and a bowed board seat on tapering square-section legs
36½ in. (93 cm.) high (2)

Probably Harry Rixson, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, where acquired on 16 July 1937 (£2).

Specialist note

The lion statant is used in the crests of several noble families such as the Percys, Dukes of Northumberland and the Fitzroys, Dukes of Grafton, however its unadorned appearance here (without coronet or standing on a chapeau, for example) suggests that in this instance its purpose was purely decorative.