LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY IRISH

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR
LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY IRISH
The top rail carved with scrolls and foliage above a pierced splat foliate centred by a tassel and out-scrolled arms, with a green velvet drop in seat, cabriole legs and claw and ball feet, the drop in seat of solid oak
37 ½ in. (95 cm.) high; 25 in. (64.5 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The pierced splat of the present chair, which is framed by distinctive foliate scrolls and centred by a carved tassel, relates to an Irish chair, c. 1760, previously at Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin and now in a private collection, published in The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 107, fig. 137.

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