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Twelve dining chairs

Ref: 1640
  • Detail

    Mahogany

    95 x 54 x 50 cm

    English, circa 1785

  • Provenance

    Arthur S. Vernay, New York, before 1940; [ … ]; Partridge Fine Art; American private collection

  • Literature

    R.W. Symonds, Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, London, 1940, fig. 12 (see right)

    R.W. Symonds, ‘Mahogany Chairs of the Late 18th Century’, The Antique Collector, May-June 1945, fig. 1

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Notes

    Symonds (1945, p. 73) comments with specific reference to the present set of chairs: ‘The best chairs are distinguished by their heaviness in weight owing to being constructed from fine textured heavy Cuban mahogany.  Their carved decoration is crisp and accurate in this hard close-grained wood.’