A set of six Regency mahogany hall chairs together with a similar Regency mahogany hall bench.
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A suite of Regency mahogany hall furniture comprising of six hall chairs and a bench
The chairs with carved curved shaped splats, the top rails centred with a turned brass handle on saddle shaped seats and moulded outswept legs, together with a matching Regency mahogany three seat hall bench, five of the six chairs marked on the underside with initials 'IM', the bench inscribed 'AN INCENDIARY BOMB FELL ON THIS SEAT ON THE NIGHT OF XXIX VI MCMXLII PETERBOROUGH', the bench 132cm wide, (51.5" wide). (7)
Sold for £2,250 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • A set of related chairs with Grecian palm splats in place of the solid lyres form part of the furnishings for the library at Shrugborough, Staffordshire and are illustrated in J.Martin Robinson, Shrugborough, National Trust, 1989, p.30

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