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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Each with rounded back carved with husks, above an open back with five vertical supports carved with husks and issuing an acanthus spray, the downswept arms wrapped with leaves at the upper edge, on downswept supports above a padded seat covered in red velvet, the reeded bowed front rail above reeded tapering legs headed by stiff-leaf capitals and surmounted by panels with swagged drapes, on ball feet, later blocks, restorations to the top of the stiles (2)
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These elegant library chairs are conceived in the 1780's manner of French-fashioned 'cabriole' chairs, and, with their arched backs festooned with Roman acanthus-husks, they relate to patterns in A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, (pls. 10-12). One, with arms rising from the front legs, was noted as having been executed for the Buckingham Palace apartments of George, Prince of Wales, later George IV. By 1782, the architect James Wyatt (d.1815) had formed a close working relationship with the cabinet-making firm of Gillows of Oxford Street and Lancaster, whose related 'Wyatt' chair, with columnar legs and palm-wrapped capitals, was introduced in that year (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs, Royston, 1995, fig. 275). The seat-rails of the present chairs are also enriched with 'antique' drapery festoons as feature in many of Wyatt's designs. The Hepplewhite firm also illustrated this pattern of reeded chair leg, and it appears in many of Gillows working sketches, such as their armchair pattern of 1789 (L. Boynton, op. cit., fig. 274).