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LOT 283*

A pair of George III yew-wood high-back Windsor armchairs, Thames Valley, circa 1780

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Each having a hooped back with four long spindles either side of a central splat, the single-piece splat fretted and carved with scrolls, simple leaves, rosette-flowerheads and anthemion, the outsplayed arm bow on crook-shaped front supports, the bell-shaped 'mahogany' seat raised on cabriole front legs with pad feet, the rear legs with low baluster-turning, and joined by a crinoline stretcher, 66cm wide x 49cm deep x 107cm high, (25 1/2in wide x 19in deep x 42in high) (2)

Literature:
For a cabriole leg Windsor armchair with a comparable carved splat and mahogany seat see Michael Harding Hill, Windsor Chairs (2003), p. 66. See also the Frederick Parker Chair Collection, London Metropolitan University [no. 142], for a Windsor chair almost certainly from the same workshop at this Lot.

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Each having a hooped back with four long spindles either side of a central splat, the single-piece splat fretted and carved with scrolls, simple leaves, rosette-flowerheads and anthemion, the outsplayed arm bow on crook-shaped front supports, the bell-shaped 'mahogany' seat raised on cabriole front legs with pad feet, the rear legs with low baluster-turning, and joined by a crinoline stretcher, 66cm wide x 49cm deep x 107cm high, (25 1/2in wide x 19in deep x 42in high) (2)

Literature:
For a cabriole leg Windsor armchair with a comparable carved splat and mahogany seat see Michael Harding Hill, Windsor Chairs (2003), p. 66. See also the Frederick Parker Chair Collection, London Metropolitan University [no. 142], for a Windsor chair almost certainly from the same workshop at this Lot.

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