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Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Dining Furniture
A Set of Twelve Chippendale Dining chairs

SOLD - A Magnificent Set of Twelve Georgian Chippendale Dining chairs

The set comprising ten side chairs and two armchairs, each having an arched head rail with Gothic tracery above a pierced and carved interlaced splat above an upholstered seat. The chairs supported on square moulded legs united by stretchers and having pierced angle brackets to the top of each leg. The quality, colour and patination of the chairs being excellent.

English, Circa 1770

Provenance: The Reverend Peter How, Cumberland,
thence by descent at Nearwell, Shropshire

The headrails are detailed with a Gothic arcading as featured in Robert Manwaring 'Gothic Chair' Patterns illustrated in A Society of Upholsterer's, Genteel Household Furniture in the Present Taste (1765) and in Manwaring's own Chair Makers Guide (1766)