Lot 123
123
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with cartouche-shaped channelled frame, the shaped toprail carved with stylised opposing acanthus and bell husks above a padded buttoned yellow silk back and seat, the stiff-leaf carved beaded scrolled arm-terminals above a shaped seat-rail centred by a foliate fan motif, on stiff-leaf headed cabriole legs, with batten holes to the underside, restorations, two legs repaired, one chair with seat-rail heightened (2)

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with cartouche-shaped channelled frame, the shaped toprail carved with stylised opposing acanthus and bell husks above a padded buttoned yellow silk back and seat, the stiff-leaf carved beaded scrolled arm-terminals above a shaped seat-rail centred by a foliate fan motif, on stiff-leaf headed cabriole legs, with batten holes to the underside, restorations, two legs repaired, one chair with seat-rail heightened (2)

Lot Essay

This serpentined frame chair, designed in the Louis XV style, is carved on the seat-rails and legs with a palmette spray in the 'antique' manner, which relates to that found on a suite of furniture supplied in the early 1760s for the state apartment of John, 1st Earl Spencer's London house, and attributed to John Gordon of Swallow Street (see: G. Beard and C. Gilbert eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, pp.355-356.)

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