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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY 'HARVEY' OPEN ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY 'HARVEY' OPEN ARMCHAIRS
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1780
Each shield-shaped back centred by wheatsheaves above plumes, a roundel and quarter-rosette, the shoulders carved with trailing husks, above channelled arms and a bowed caned seat, on tapering channelled square legs and block feet, stamped RE to backrail, with yellow squab cushion
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 23 in. (58 cm.) wide; 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to John Harvey and by descent with the Harvey Family, Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire (part of a set of ten or more armchairs and a pair of window seats en suite) and by descent until it the house was sold by John Audley Harvey in 1924.
With Norman Adams, mid-1980s, by whom sold to
D.K.F. Heathcote Esq., Badlingham Manorl; sold Vosts, Newmarket, 16 September 1999, lot 37 (part lot).
With Norman Adams, circa 2000.

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY 'HARVEY' OPEN ARMCHAIRS
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1780
Each shield-shaped back centred by wheatsheaves above plumes, a roundel and quarter-rosette, the shoulders carved with trailing husks, above channelled arms and a bowed caned seat, on tapering channelled square legs and block feet, stamped RE to backrail, with yellow squab cushion
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 23 in. (58 cm.) wide; 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to John Harvey and by descent with the Harvey Family, Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire (part of a set of ten or more armchairs and a pair of window seats en suite) and by descent until it the house was sold by John Audley Harvey in 1924.
With Norman Adams, mid-1980s, by whom sold to
D.K.F. Heathcote Esq., Badlingham Manorl; sold Vosts, Newmarket, 16 September 1999, lot 37 (part lot).
With Norman Adams, circa 2000.

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