A GEORGE III MAHOGANY COCKPEN ARMCHAIR

These Chinese-railed chairs have diamond-lozenged backs corresponding to a 'garden seat' pattern illustrated in the architect Charles Over's Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste, 1758 (pl. 9); while their cluster-columned legs can be related to Chinese 'bamboo' furniture, such as the garden chair pattern in William Chambers' Designs of Chinese Buildings, 1757. A suite of chairs of this pattern may have been introduced to Lennoxlove, Haddington in the 18th Century by Lord Blantyre.