A Set of Twelve George III Mahogany Dining-Chairs Including Ten Single & Two Armchairs

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A Set of Twelve George III Mahogany Dining-Chairs Including Ten Single & Two Armchairs ( England c. 1760 )

Provenance

Colonel Barham, Hole Park, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, Kent and by descent. Used in the family pew in Rolvenden Church.

Literature

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)

Description / Expertise

Each chair having an undulating headrail which is centered by a foliate spray. Below is a pierced rocaille scroll and ‘gothic’ arched splat flanked by stop-fluted uprights with crisply carved foliage. The close-nailed padded seat on square chamfered legs joined by H-stretchers. The moulded arms with carved scroll detail and with in-swept arm-supports.