Apter-Fredericks

Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Chairs

A Fine George I Walnut Wing Armchair together with a copy
A George III Carved Mahogany Settee
A Pair of George III Large Bergere Chairs
A Unusual Pair of Regency Hall Chairs
An Important Pair of George III Gilt-wood Settees in the Manner of Thomas Chippendale the Younger
A George II Walnut Armchair
A Pair of Regency Period Mahogany Curricle Bergeres
A Rare George II Carved Mahogany Armchair
A Pair of George III Giltwood Bergeres Atrributed to Francois Herve and Probably Supplied by Henry Holland.
A George III Window Seat
A Pair of George III Mahogany Armchairs Attributed to Gillow of Lancaster
A Regency Period Day-Bed
A Pair of Regency Day Beds
A Pair of George IV Mahogany Hall Chairs in the Manner of Sir Robert Smirke
A Pair of George II Carved Mahogany Gainsborough Armchairs
A Pair of George I Walnut Stools
A Pair of George III Adam Period Carved Mahogany Armchairs
A Fine Pair of George III Hepplewhite Period Mahogany Armchairs Attributed to John Cobb
A Set of Eighteen George III Mahogany Dining-Chairs
A Rare George III Carved Mahogany Armchair
A George III Carved Mahogany Stool
A George II Carved Walnut Armchair
A Rare George III Carved Mahogany Armchair
A Pair of Regency Period Curricle Chairs
A Pair of George III Adam Period Carved Mahogany Sidechairs
A Set of Eighteen George III Mahogany Dining-Chairs

A Set of Eighteen George III Mahogany Dining-Chairs

The chairs with an undulating headrail centred by a foliate spray, with 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 scroll detail and with in-swept arm-supports.

English, Circa 1760

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

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)