A SET OF SIX MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS, each with pierced cartouche-shaped back with stepped top above a railed splat carved with drapery and stylised flowers above an X-shaped motif, the serpentine padded seat covered in pink velvet, on panelled square tapering legs and spade feet, later back blocks and minor restorations (6)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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Given to the owners mother, Miss Kerridge, on the occasion of her marriage in 1947 from her grandfather, who owned and ran the family furniture and antique business in Hailsham Sussex.

拍品专文

These parlour chairs with their 'therm' legs and feet, hollow-frame backs and arched crest derive from the 'French' antique style promoted by George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV in the 1780s and popularised by A.Hepplewhite and Co. in their Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. A set of chairs of this model at Crowcombe Court, Somerset, is illustrated in J.Fowler and J.Cornforth, English Decoration in the 18th Century, London, 1974, p.219, fig.192