A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
Lot 308 PROPERTY FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF KAYE MILLER

A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER, CIRCA 1815

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A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER, CIRCA 1815
Each with waisted shell-carved back and plank-seat on turned tapering front legs, one stamped M. S. to the back seat rail, possibly for Martin Shannon

A Private Collection, USA.

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The design for these hall chairs is in the early 19th century Grecian style adopted by Gillows of Lancaster. The overall form of these chairs, with their richly carved Venus-shell backs, relates to those made in 1811 for the Reverend H. Holland Edwards of Pennant, Conway, North Wales, illustrated S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Vol. 1, London, 2008, p. 203, pl. 177.
The stamp, M. S., is possibly for Martin Shannon, a chairmaker listed at 15 Bolton Street, Preston, in 1818 (G. Beard and C. Gilbert, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, 1986, p. 802).