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A pair of George III carved mahogany hall chairs
The circular moulded pierced splats with central circular tablet and tapering moulded supports, on dished shaped moulded seats and fluted seatrails, on square tapering fluted legs and block feet. (2)
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A related pair of hall chairs from the collection of Mrs Nellie Ionides at Buxted Park, Sussex sold Phillips London, 13 June 1995, lot 113.
A set of ten hall chairs formerly at Normanton Hall, Leicestershire, with a solid wheel back on pierced supports painted with the crest and initials of Sir Gilbert Heathcote were thought to have been supplied by Thomas Chippendale are illustrated in C.Gilbert, The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, Bristol, 1978, p.96, pl.154. Chippendale utilised the square tapered leg and block foot on the four hall chairs with painted with the Lascelles crest which were supplied to the Lower Hall, Harewood House, Yorkshire in 1773, (see C.Gilbert, ibid.,p.96, pl.156). A related pair of hall chairs were offered Sotheby's New York, 16 October 2008, lot 114.











