A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS

A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS, in the manner of Thomas Chippendale, with serpentine cresting rails carved with oval and circular paterae hung with bell flowers over three horizontal bars carved with interlocking foliate scrolls, on square-moulded front legs carved with circular foliate paterae united by squared stretchers and terminating in block feet. Comprising a pair of elbow chairs upholstered in contemporary gross and petit point needlework with musicians and figures carrying a cat in a mannequin and six single chairs, (8) The distinctive carving on the toprails centred on oval paterae is comparable to chairs supplied by Thomas Chippendale to Brocket Hall circa 1773 and Goldsborough Hall circa 1772.