Beschreibung:

A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS CIRCA 1810, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE Each with vertical splats with central bullseye, the supports united by x-stretchers Literature: F. Bamford, 'Weston Hall, Northamptonshire - II: The Home of Sir Sacheverell and Lady Sitwell', Country Life, 29 January 1976, p. 235, fig. 4. Catalogue Note: Part of this set of mahogany chairs was photographed in 1976 by Country Life at Weston Hall, in the Dining Room, formerly the Great Parlour (F. Bamford, 'Weston Hall, Northamptonshire - II: The Home of Sir Sacheverell and Lady Sitwell', Country Life, 29 January 1976, p. 235, fig. 4). The chair backs of these chairs are closely related to those on a set of twelve satinwood side chairs from Harewood House, Yorkshire, 1790s, attributed to Thomas Chippendale Junior (J. Goodison, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale Junior, London and New York, 2017, p. 309, plate 101). Another mahogany set with tapering baluster legs formerly at Normanton Hall, Rutland, comprising two armchairs and eighteen single chairs was described by Christopher Gilbert as possibly by Chippendale Senior or Junior, c. 1775-80 (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale vol. II, London, 1978, plate 171; chairs from this set now in a private collection have more recently been re-attributed to Chippendale Junior (Goodison, ibid., plates 102-4). The design of these chairs may have been inspired by designs in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1st Edition, 1793 - see part III, plate XXXIII for a design for a parlour chair with upholstered circular seat (ed. E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design: The Printed Sources, Woodbridge, reprinted 2000, p. 93). This influential publication featured a number of designs for pierced splat chair backs, which presumably could be modified at will by the furniture-maker (ibid., p. 94, plate XXXVI, p. 95, plate XXVIII).