A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
Attributed to Mayhew and Ince
Each with an oval fluted back centred by a painted crest of a spear issuing from a ducal coronet and below a Viscount's coronet on a white ground, with an oval-centred solid seat and fluted seat-rail divided by paterae, on square tapering fluted legs and panelled tapering feet (2)

Provenance

Almost certainly commissioned by George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton (d. 1836) for Peper Harow, Sussex and by descent to
Lady Moyra Loyd, ne Brodrick, daughter of the 1st Earl of Midleton and by descent.

Literature

'Peper Harow, Surrey', Country Life, vol. LVIII, 1925, p. 1002 (illustrated in situ in the Entrance Hall).
C. Hussey, English Country Houses, Mid-Georgian 1760-1800, London, 1956, p. 111, fig. 205 (illustrated in situ in the Entrance Hall).

Lot Essay

The hall chairs have fluted medallion backs rayed from an escutcheon bearing the Midleton crest of George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton (d. 1836). They were executed in the 1770s under the direction of Sir William Chambers (d. 1796) for the entrance/banqueting hall of Peper Harow, Sussex. The chairs, whose Palladian patera-enriched and antique-fluted rails harmonise with the hall door entablatures, are likely to have been executed by Mayhew and Ince, cabinet-makers of Golden Square and authors of The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762. The firm supplied related stone-painted chairs for Broadlands, Hampshire (see H. Roberts, 'The Ince and Mayhew Connection', Country Life, 29 January 1981, p. 289, fig. 4). That set shares the distinctive roundel and flute seat-rail with these chairs.
Six chairs from the same set as the present lot were sold by a family trust, in these Rooms, 21 April 1994, lots 304-306.

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