These extremely well proportioned chairs have a serpentine head-rail with carved shells to each corner and carved foliage within a cartouche to the centre above a pierced splat and uprights in the form of elongated 'c' scrolls.

The serpentine seat-rail similarly carved with a shell to the centre of the front rail and an ogee moulding running right round the lower edge of the seat-rail and down each leg.

The legs, which are a superb cabriole shape, terminate in 'french' scroll feet and have deeply carved acanthus leaf decoration to the top of each leg which rises high up into the seat itself.

The chairs are superbly executed examples of an important London cabinet-maker's work and they benefit enormously from having retained their original surface which has become a golden colour with deep patination. The chairs upholstered in Eighteenth century needlework.

English, Circa 1760

English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century by Cescinsky Vol 2 fig 389
Another, almost identical chair, from a set of twelve with two settees from Kippax Park, Yorkshire, illustrated in The English Chair by M. Harris Page 121.