A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS

Each with arched curved padded back and serpentine seat covered in pink-striped material, the arms on channelled scrolled supports, on cabriole legs headed by scallop-shells, the decoration rubbed (2)

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A suite of mahogany chairs of related form were supplied by John Cobb (d.1778), court cabinet-maker to King George III, in 1770 to Elizabeth Cust for Erthig, Wales (A.L. Cust, Chronicles of Erthig on the Dyke, 1914, vol. II, pp. 118 and 125)

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