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TWELVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
Lot 90

TWELVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS

THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed23 July 2020

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TWELVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Comprising a pair of open armchairs and eight side chairs, each with shaped toprail and pierced vase-shaped splat carved with rockwork and foliage, the arms with outscrolled foliate-carved terminals, the seats covered in double close-nailed patterned green horsehair, on chamfered square legs joined by stretchers; together with a pair of side chairs of very similar design, the drop-in seats covered en suite, with stop-fluted uprights to the backs
The armchairs: 37 in. (94 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 24 ½ in. (62 cm.) deep
The side chairs: 37 in. (94 cm.) high; 23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) wide; 22 ¾ in. (57.5 cm.) deep

Possibly Colonel Barham, Hole Park, Cranbrook, Kent and by descent until the late 20th century.
Possibly Dick Turpin; sold Christie's, London, 9 March 2006, lot 165.

Specialist note

The parlour chairs, with their scalloped and Gothic-fretted splats, correspond to a pattern discussed by J. Kirk in American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830, New York, 1982, fig. 932. Another four chairs of this pattern, but with different legs, were in the possession of Elson of London in 1934 (P. Brown, The Noel Terry Collection: Fairfax House, York, 1987, no. 56).
While these chairs have now been covered in green horsehair, they are identical to the chairs from Hole Park, Cranbrook, Kent, sold in The Legend of Dick Turpin Part 1 at Christie's, London, 9 March 2006, although the Hole Park examples were catalogued as having 'EMN' stamped on one seat rail and 'HV?' on another, which do not appear on these chairs.