A SET OF SIX GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS CIRCA 1785
The wheel-shaped backs centered with a circular leaf carved paterae, having eight husk-enriched triangular spokes entwined with leaf-carved festoons, and radiating the cross-grained outer rim, the arms out-curving, the saddle-shaped seats with serpentine front rails united to the backs with tenoned slats, supported on turned and fluted tapering front legs and circular splay rear legs, with loose seat cushions, with minor variations to carving throughout
Provenance
Acquired from J.J. Wolff Antiques, Ltd., New York, in 1963.
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The wheel-shaped backs centered with a circular leaf carved paterae, having eight husk-enriched triangular spokes entwined with leaf-carved festoons, and radiating the cross-grained outer rim, the arms out-curving, the saddle-shaped seats with serpentine front rails united to the backs with tenoned slats, supported on turned and fluted tapering front legs and circular splay rear legs, with loose seat cushions, with minor variations to carving throughout
Provenance
Acquired from J.J. Wolff Antiques, Ltd., New York, in 1963.