Furniture, Works of Art, Carpets & Clocks - 16th January 2025

Lot 828

A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £1071

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Description

A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, C.1820-30

each with a tablet toprail above an oval splat and a dished bell-shaped seat on sabre front legs with a ribbed back stretcher (2)

Literature

See Susan E. Stuart, 'Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840', vol. 1, p.204, pl.179 for a related hall chair one of eight made for Thomas Clifton of Lytham Hall, c.1832.