A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
English, circa 1790
Height: 32¼ in; 82 cm
Height of seat: 18¾ in; 47.5 cm
Width: 21½ in; 54.5 cm
Depth: 23 in; 58.5 cm
Ref. 4493351
Price Range: £100,000.00 +
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Note: The caned seat panels have been renewed at some stage.
This unusually fine set of chairs features well carved detail and skilfully engineered construction which uses the pressure applied when they are sat on to give them extra strength. This is achieved by rotating the back uprights outwards, thus forming a continuous curve in line with the cresting. The arms descend in a long downwards sweep from where they are joined to the top of the uprights, then curve outwards and back, and down towards the sides of the seat front, where they form turned balusters and join the sides in blocks.
A single armchair of identical construction with a variant back is illustrated in 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection.

Literature: Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, p. 89.