A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR, English, circa 1765
Height: 38¼ in; 97.5 cm
Height of seat: 18½ in; 47 cm
Width: 25¾ in; 65.5 cm
Depth: 23¾ in; 60 cm
Height of seat: 18½ in; 47 cm
Width: 25¾ in; 65.5 cm
Depth: 23¾ in; 60 cm
4460451
£10,000 - £50,000
Note: The back rail has a typed paper label pasted to the inside for ‘Phillips of Hitchin’. The maker of this armchair has not been identified, but other virtually identical...
Note: The back rail has a typed paper label pasted to the inside for ‘Phillips of Hitchin’.
The maker of this armchair has not been identified, but other virtually identical chairs by the same hand are known, and on all of them the carving is especially good. The arm supports on this chair feature fine trailing acanthus leaf.
A set of chairs from the same workshop was illustrated in Ronald Phillips Ltd.’s ‘Great English Furniture 2021’, pp. 140-41.
Provenance
Phillips of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England;
Private collection, Yorkshire, England.
