Pair of C18th George III Period Mahogany Side Chairs with Original Needle-work Seat Covers .

Pair of C18th George III period mahogany side chairs with original needle-work seat covers.

Well proportioned pair of mahogany chairs with carved open-splat backs and serpentine cresting rail tops . Good wide, broad seats crucially retaining their original needle-work covers with a good level of original colours. Raised on square moulded 'Marlborough' pattern forelegs united by an 'H' stretcher.

Serpentine outline front to the seats , the back splats with a shaped 'shoe' to the rear.

In decorative 'country-house' condition. The frames below the seats with interesting estate-made iron-work repairs and the webbing is distressed and loose.

No breaks or repairs to to the chair frames .

The seat covers being rare survivors from the mid eighteenth century.

H 38"

H(seat) 18"

W 21"

D 19"

England c.1760

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