Live Auction 10710Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A SET OF EIGHT MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Lot 109 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A SET OF EIGHT MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS

SIX GEORGE III, LATE 18TH CENTURY, TWO LATER

Closed24 November 2015

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A SET OF EIGHT MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
SIX GEORGE III, LATE 18TH CENTURY, TWO LATER
Each with generous green leather seat and three vertical splats centred with roundels, on tapering legs
Each 35 in. (89 cm.) high; 23 in. (59 cm.) wide; 19 ½ in. (50 cm.) deep

The Georgian chairs acquired from N. Ayer, Bath in the early 1960s. The pair of later chairs made by Mallett, 1972.

Specialist note

A closely related set of chairs with the same pattern back is recorded at Northampton Park, Rutland, illustrated in Christopher Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, Leeds, 1978, vol. II, p. 102, fig. 171.