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SOLD....Portrait of Nell Gwynn, studioof Sir Peter Lely
Oil on canvas in carved and giltwood 'Lely' frame.
STUDIO OF SIR PETER LELY
SIR PETER LELY (1618 - 1680) was the dominant Court and Society portraitist of the reign of Charles ll. He was made Principal Painter to the King in 1661, and knighted in 1680.
Many portraits of unknown Restoration ladies are said to be Nell Gwyn, on no grounds at all. It is rare for one to be unquestionably of the actress, as this one is.
This studio work is identical to the prime version painted by Lely and formerly at Parham Park, Collection of the Hon. Clive Gibson, and sold at Sotheby's 15 June 2000 for £57,500.
Portraits of prominent subjects of their day, especially Royal and Court sitters, were in much demand after the Restoration. Lely’s many talented studio assistants, among them Greenhill and Lankrink, were regularly occupied in making highly accomplished copies under Lely's supervision.
Nell looks confidentally at the viewer, her decollatage very revealing, as was the custom for portraits of mistresses. To her right, in an urn, grows Spanish Jasmine which signifies sensuality, and was famous for its exotic heady perfume which is especially intoxicating at night....all very appropriate.
NELL GWYN (or Gwynn or Gwynne) was born Eleanor Gwyn (2 Feb. 1650 - 14 Nov. 1687).
Charles II's famous mistress ('pretty witty Nell' in Pepys's words) began life as an orange seller in the Theatre Royal, where she was befriended by Charles Hart and John Lacy, the players. In 1665 she appeared for the first time on the stage as Cydraria in Dryden's 'Indian Emperor'. Pepys greatly admired her, and she continued in numerous roles by Dryden and others until she quitted the stage in 1682. Dryden wrote parts especially for her, taking advantage in particular of her gift for delivering prologues and epilogues. After she had recited an epilogue in a hat 'of the circumference of a large coach-wheel', Charles II approached her and took her back in his coach to supper. Much of her popularity as the King's mistress lay in the unpopularity of the Catholic Duchess of Portsmouth, her main rival. It is said that when mobbed in Oxford by a crowd who mistook her for her rival, Nell leant out of her coach and said: 'Pray good people be civil; I am the Protestant whore'. Madame de Sevigne noted the rivalry and said of Nell Gwyn: 'She is young, indiscreet, confident, wild and of an agreeable humour: she sings, she dances, she acts her part with a good grace.' She had two sons by the King and the eldest, Charles, was created Duke of St Albans. The King assigned Burford House in Windsor to her. She died aged 37 and is buried in the Church of St. Martin's in the Fields, at the corner of Trafalgar Square.
SIZE: 49.5 x 39.5 inches canvas size
PROVENANCE: by descent in Ireland since at least c.1800 to the previous owner
Price:
£28,000
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Portrait of Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester,c.1690, by John Closterman.
Oil on canvas in Lely pattern gilt frame.
An extremely high quality portrait thought to be of Catherine Sedley; the sitter bears a very strong resemblance to a portrait of 1685 by Kneller at Kedleston Hall. (See Plate 96 'Painted Ladies. Women at the Court of Charles ll'. Published by the National Portrait Gallery).
As was the fashion the sitter is shown wearing her most informal garments, known as 'undress' yet she wears a diamond brooch and holds what seems to be a diamond necklace. (Until the 19th c. all diamonds were flat or table cut and thus appear as black gems in portraiture). One can only presume there was some significance in their depiction...perhaps relating to her engagement or marriage which occurred around this time.
CATHERINE SEDLEY, Countess of Dorchester, Countess of Portmore (c. 1657 – 26 October 1717), daughter of Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, was the mistress of King James II both before and after he came to the throne.
She was created Countess of Dorchester for life in 1686, an elevation which aroused much indignation and compelled Catherine to reside for a time in Ireland. In 1696 she married Sir David Colyear, Bt., who was created Earl of Portmore in 1703, and she was thus the mother of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore. She died at Bath on 26 October 1717, when her life peerage became extinct.
By James II, Lady Dorchester had a daughter Lady Catherine Darnley (d. 1743), who married James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey, and after his death married John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby. Through Catherine, her daughter by her first husband, she was the ancestress of the Barons Mulgrave and of the Mitford sisters.
JOHN CLOSTERMAN (1660-1711), born in Osnabruck, settled in London in !681. He worked with John Riley until the latter's death in 1691.
By the 1690s Closterman was rediscovering earlier influences, especially the extravagant, textural, French manner he learned in Paris under François de Troy. He was adept at fashionable baroque poses, with rather showily painted draperies.
Closterman’s sense of theatre and his mastery of colour explains his appeal to a broad clientele, from nobles like the Dukes of Somerset and Marlborough to Sir Christopher Wren and Henry Purcell, the geniuses of the age.
Dimensions: 48.75" x 58"
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Price:
£19,500
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SOLD.....Inlaid Mahhogany Kidney Desk
An exceptional quality late Victorian mahogany kidney-shaped desk profusely inlaid with satinwood, harewood and boxwood, depicting harebells, urns swag and shells. The desk has its original green leather and ococo style brass swan neck handles. The drawer linings are also mahogany. A fine example of the late Victorian Sheraton revival style, c.1900.
Dimensions: 53" x 25" x 28"
Price:
£6,500
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Georgian Mahogany Chest on Chest
A fine Georgian mahogany chest on chest with many desirable features including dentil cornice, canted corners with blind frework, original rococo handles, brushing slide and oak lined drawers. A classic piece of Georgian furniture on original bracket feet.
Dimensions: 74"h x42"w x 21.25"d
Price:
£6,250
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Portrait of a Lady, by Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, c.1740
Oil on canvas in good quality period giltwood frame (with damages).
A fine portrait of an aristocratic lady showing the qualities that made the artist such a success...an ability to suggest wit, a sense of humour and an inner mental life in his sitters; and, in the drapery, a freedom of expression and a painterly delight in the use of the medium.
The effect of Van Loo's arrival in London on British portraiture was dynamic - the Continental refinement and polish that was characteristic of his work made much of the then fashionable painting seem stilted and old-fashioned. His style was particularly successful with portraits of women.... he had a smarter style than Richardson's, he influenced Hudson, and his manners and manner suited the upper classes better than Hogarth's.
JEAN-BAPTISTE VAN LOO (1684-1745), born in Aix-en-Provence.
He worked in the south of France, Turin and Rome, settling in Paris in 1720 becoming a Member of the Academy.
Coming to England in 1737 he had immense success in London as a fashionable portrait painter; by 1739 he was the favourite painter of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole and had painted the Princess of Wales and her family. Due to ill-health he returned to France in 1742, dying there three years later.
Dimensions: 32" x 37"
Price:
£5,995
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SOLD...Mahogany Dining Table
A Regency mahogany dining table, c.1830, comprising two pedestal ends on sabre legs and a drop leaf centre on finely turned legs. Fully extended the table can seat upto 14 people. It can also be split into two small tables - - a drop leaf table to seat 8 and a square table formed by the two pedestal ends to seat 4. This elegant table has the practical advantage of having no legs to impede diners.
Dimensions: 123" x 50.5" x 29.5"
Price:
£5,950
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SOLD...Longcase Clock
A very attractive Sheraton-style mahogany longcase clock small enough to go in almost any home. The clock bears the makers name Reynoldson, one time Mayor of Hull and clockmaker. It has the typical East coast feature of a pagoda top inlaid with satinwood shells.
It has an eight day movement striking the hour on a bell behind a very pretty painted dial with calendar aperture. The slim case has inlaid canted corners and an inlaid oval panel.
The movement comes with a full one year warranty within 200 miles of Harrogate.
Size: 85" x 20" x 10"
Price:
£5,950
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William IV Dining Table
A superb William IV mahogany dining table with two extension leaves on oak runners with attractive moulded freize and pull out action on fluted tapering legs, c.1835.
Dimensions: 97" x 48"
Price:
£5,750
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Pair of Chaises
A rare pair of well carved mahogany William IV chaises in excellent original condtion. Although not perfect the upholstery is in very good usable condition. c. 1835
Dimensions: 722 x 24 " x 33" (h)
Price:
£5,500
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Oak Dresser
A good early eighteenth century dresser with spice drawers over a base of architectural form having reeded flat pilasters flanking two fielded panel doors and central bank of four drawers. The base has a very attractive shaped freize aling the bottom. In good original condition throughout with the exception of the handles and haveing an excellent colour.
Lenth: 74"
Price:
£5,250
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SOLD...Eight Georgian Dining Chairs
SOLD...A good set of eight Regency mahogany dining chairs in excellent original condition. The set comprises six single and two armchairs on finely turned legs with ebony stringing on the back rails. All chairs are in structurally sound and original condition and have been recently upholstered.
Dimensions: 34"h x 20"w x 16"d
Price:
£5,250
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SOLD....Georgian Chest on Chest or Tallboy
A George II mahogany chest on chest of extremely good colour and patination, having original fretted handles and feet and oak drawer linings. A lovely piece of early Georgian mahogany furniture being rare in the degree of its originality and its small size (only 38" wide), c. 1750.
Price:
£4,950
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Georgian Mahogany Dining Table
A very attractive and practical Regency dining table, c.1820, comprised of two D-ends and two extension leaves. When fully extended the table can seat 10/12 people. When reduced the two D-ends can be used as consoles. The legs are cleverly disposed so as not to obstruct diners.
The table has a lovely colour and patination and is beautifully proportioned.
Dimensions: 48" wide
100" long (extended)
29" high
55" long (closed)
Price:
£4,950
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Victorian Mahogany Buffet
A substantial and exceptionally well carved early Victorian 3-tier buffet, c. 1850, standing on twin cabriole legs in untouched original condition.
Dimensions: 49" x 21" x 52"
Price:
£4,900
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SOLD.....Victorian walnut partners' desk
A good quality Victorian parners' desk with highly decorative walnut veneers, c.1890. The desk has nine drawers one side and two cupboards and three drawers to the other side. The desk has its original brass fret handles and is on its original plinth base. It is a very good domestic size and has an attractive green leather tooled with gold leaf.
Dimensions: 50 1/2" x 32" x 28 1/2" high
Price:
£4,750
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SOLD....Georgian Mahogany Chest
A rare George II mahogany chest of drawers with many desirable features including canted corners with quarter columns, original brass ware, original ogee bracket feet and crossbanded top. It has very good colour and patination and the top is exceptionally well figured (see photo). The chest is oak lined and is very finely proportioned. An exceptional collectors piece, c. 1750.
Dimensions: 38" x 20" x 29.5" (h)
Price:
£4,750
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SOLD...Circular Rosewood Table
An exceptional early nineteenth century circular rosewood dining or centre table with tilting mechanism. The highly figured top is of superb colour and extremely decorative. The substantial triform base is well carved. The table will seat 6/7 very comfortably and 8 if necessary. Alternatively it can be used as as centre table.
Dimensions: 52" diameter x 29" high
Price:
£4,250
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SOLD......Victorian Walnut Credenza by Lambs
An exhibition quality Victorian figured walnut credenza of serpentine form stamped "Lambs, Manchester" in perfect original condition, c.1860.
Dimensions: 72" x 17.75" x 36.5" (h)
Price:
£4,250
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Georgian Desk
A good Georgian mahogany partners' desk, c.1800, with nine cockbeaded drawers to one side and a further three drawers over two cupboards to the other all fitted with original bramah locks. The desk has original ring pull brass handles and is a very good domestic size measuring 52.5" x 34" x 30"(high).
Price:
£4,250
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Georgian Corner Cupboard
A fine quality Georgian mahogany freestanding corner cubpoard with satinwood bandings and applied brass shells. An exceptionally attractive piece of good colour and pleasing proportions, c.1790.
Dimensions: 94" x 41"
Price:
£4,250
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SOLD.......Empire Chest
A very small, rare mahogany Empire chest of drawers inlaid with mythological creatures in the typical Napoleonic Empire style.
It is in remarkably untouched original condition, even having its original blue lining paper in the drawers. The three drawer fronts are made from one piece of well figured mahogany framed with ebony stringing. c. 1820.
Dimensions: 29"(w) x 33" x 18 1/2"
Price:
£4,225
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French Bureau en Pente
A superb bureau en pente by Parisian eboniste Charles-Guillaume DIEHL, c. 1860, with signature on the lock plate. The bureau has high quality brass mounts and very fine profuse marquetry inlays. The richly figured satinwood interior retains its orignal blaze of colour whilst the exterior has slightly faded to a lovely soft hue. The hinges are finely engraved. There is a drawer in the side and two small internal drawers.
Diehl exhibited in Paris in 1855 and in the 1867 Paris Exhibition. He made various forms of furniture including boulle, pietre dure, and profusely inlaid furniture of which this is a fine example. See "19th Century Furniture" by Christopher Payne(Antiques Collector's Club, Woodbridge), p.35
Dimensions: 26" (w) x 18" (d) x 34"
Price:
£3,900
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Georgian Mahogany Bookcase
A good Georgian mahogany cupboard bookcase with astragal top over a well figured cupboard base, c.1780. The bookcase is in excellent original condition and is fitted with orginal adjustable shelves to both sections.
Dimensions: 75" x 55" x 17"
Price:
£3,750
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Victorian Mahogany Dining Table
A good quality Victorian dining table with two original leaves in excellent condition. The winding mechanism is in perfect working order and the table is a particularly good model having rounded ends and elegant fluted, tapering legs.
Maximum size: 105" x 47" x 28 1/2" (H)
Price:
£3,750
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SOLD.....Oak Press Cupboard
A good early eighteenth century oak press cupboad of good colour with shaped, fielded panelled doors over two drawers, c.1740.
Dimensions: 78"h x 57.5"w x 21"d
Price:
£3,750
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Georgian Mahogany Celaret
A fine Georgian octagonal celaret on stand with well figured top and attractively carved and fretted stand, c. 1770.
Dimensions: 28.75"h x 17"d
Price:
£3,450
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SOLD....Mahogany Dining Table
A William IV pembroke extending dining table with one original leaf and two later leaves on tapering reeded legs. This is a very attractive and practical dining table able to seat 12 people when fully extended yet closing to a small drop leaf pembroke table when not in use. The oak runners are in excellent condition and support the table firmly and without any of the "sag" that frequently occurs with extending tables. The later leaves have been extremely well made and are indistinguishable from the original leaves in use.
Dimensions: 105" x 48" x 29"
Price:
£3,450
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SOLD....Oak Press Cupboard
A good North Wales oak press cupboard, c. 1800 in original condition.This handsome Georgian cupboard is inlaid with ebony and boxwood and has reeded quarter columns with brass terminations. It has oak panelled sides and retains its original brass handles and ivory escutcheons. The interior is fitted with a full complement of original slides. Minor restoration to be undertaken prior to delivery.
Dimensions: 82" x 54" x 21 1/2"
Price:
£3,450
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SOLD......George II Mahogany Chest
A good George II mahogany chest of drawers in fine original condition having original brass loop handles with fretted back plates and original bracket feet, c. 1750. The chest has oak linings and is of good colour.
Dimensions:39" x 20 1/2" x 46"
Price:
£3,250
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SOLD....Georgian Oak Corner Cupboard
A very attractive standing Georgian oak corner cupboard with mahogany cross banding and frieze. The cupboard is in excellent original condition and is fitted with serpentine shaped selves and bras eagle's head escutcheons, c.1800.
Dimensions: 86"h x 46"w x26"d
Price:
£3,250
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SOLD....George II Mahogany Chest with Fitted Drawer
An early Georgian chest with well figured top, original pierced brass handles and fitted wrting drawer, on bracket feet, c. 1740. This chest is of exceptional quality having oak drawer linings and superbly figured timber found only in the finest early Georgian furniture.
Dimensions: 42.25"w x 39.5"h x 23.5"d
Price:
£3,250
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Victorian Mahogany Dining Table
A Victorian mahogany dining table with two original extension leaves and wind out extension mechanism on fluted legs, c.1870 in prfect working condition with well figured top.
Dimensions: 93" x 47" x 28.75"
Price:
£3,250
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Portrait of Thomas Cookson, c.1735, English School
Oil on canvas in 18th c. giltwood frame.
The sitter was a member of the Cookson family of Cumberland and Yorkshire; he died in 1773.
Thomas's father William (died 1743) was a wealthy merchant and pewterer in Penrith. He married Susannah Idle in 1701.
The Cooksons also owned ironworks and colleries. Thomas's uncle was the Reverend Joseph Cookson, Vicar of Leeds.
The poet William Wordsworth's mother was a Cookson.
This portrait, with seven others of the Cooksons hung in Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire, home of the Earls of Kintore. It can only be presumed that there was some marital conection between the families, as why else would a powerful aristocratic Scottish family dating back to the 12th century have eight portraits of an English mercantile middle-class family hanging in their ancestral home?
The sitter, Thomas Cookson, expensively bewigged and wearing the fashionable silk wrap of a gentleman at leisure, looks rather inquiringly at the viewer. He seems at ease, and his build and ruddy complexion indicate a man who enjoyed good living.
The unknown artist clearly had considerable talent; the face is beautifully painted and a strong sense of the character of the sitter is present.
SIZE: 39 x 32 inches inc. frame
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Price:
£3,150
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SOLD....George II Mahogany Card Table
A fine early Georgian mahogany card table, with drawer, opening to reveal guinea wells and candle stands, c.1740. An exceptional piece of early Georgian furniture in excellent original condition having many desirable features.
Dimensions: 37" x 28.5" x 17.25"
Price:
£2,850
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Sold.....Eight Antique Dining Chairs
A set of eight Victorian mahogany dining chairs on turned legs with drop in seats, c.1870, all in good original condition.
Dimensions: 34.5" high x 17.5" wide
Price:
£2,450
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Georgian Cellaret
A very pretty Georgian mahogany domed top cellaret with boxwood stringing and original brass ware, c.1790.
Dimensions: 12.5" x 12.5" x 23.5" (h)
Price:
£2,450
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SOLD....Work Table
A very attractive Regency mahogany work table with ebony stringing and rope twist stem on sabre legs, in perfect original condition with finely figured "fiddle back" mahogany top and well fitted interior, c.1820.
Dimensions: 16.5" x 12" x 28" (h)
Price:
£2,250
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William IV Rosewood Writing Table
An attractive William IV rosewood writing table with two working and two opposing dummy drawers with original knob handles on stretcher base, c.1835.
Dimensions: 54" x 24.5" x 29" (h)
Price:
£2,250
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Six Georgian Elm Country Chairs
A set of six Georgian Chippendale style country chairs in elm of superb colour and patination. The chairs have finly fretted splats and stnd on square legs. They are all in excellent original condition and have been recently re-covered.
Price:
£2,250
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Heriz Carpet
A large hand made Heriz carpet, c.1930, in excellent condition measuring 120" c 108"
Price:
£2,250
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Rosewood Waterfall Bookcase
Avery attractive rosewood open bookcase of the "waterfall" variety with a very useful cupboard below supported on turned feet. It has a rosewood edged shelf inside. The bookcase is in perfect original condition and is of particularly good figure and colour, c.1890.
Dimensions: 57" tall x 37" wide x 10 1/2" deep
Price:
£2,250
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Georgian Mahogany Chest
A handsome Georgian mahogany chest of good figure, having original swan neck brass handles, original bracket feet and oak lined drawers. A classic piece of mid Georgian furniture in lovely condition, c.1770.
Price:
£1,950
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Regency Canterbury
A good Regency mahogany canterbury with carrying handle and original brassware, c. 1820
Price:
£1,950
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Georgian Mahogany Wardrobe
A good Georgian mahogany wardrobe in fine original condition, c. 1780. The two door wardrobe has shaped panes in the doors over dummy drawers with original swan neck handles enclosing hanging space. It has a dentil cornice and stands on original bracket feet.
Dimensions: 69"h x 49"w x 22"d
Price:
£1,950
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Mahogany Dining Table
A very practical nineteenth century mahogany dining table in a style first made by Gillows. When closed it is a small square table with two freize drawers but it has two draw leaves which when extended make it a comfortable eight seater dinig table.
Dimentsions: 76.5"/41.5" x 35.5" x 28.5"
Price:
£1,950
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Eight Mahogany Dining Chairs
A good set of eight Victorian mahogany balloon back dining chairs, fully restored, with curved front rail, c.1870.
Price:
£1,950
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Georgian Mahogany Wing Chair
A good Georgian mahogany wing chair on reeded tapering legs of generous proportions. The chair has been recently upholstered in good quality attractive material.
Dimensions: 43"h x 30"w x 23.5"d
Price:
£1,950
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Regency Mahogany Sofa
An imposing Regency mahogany sofa with reeded frieze on finely turned legs.
Dimensions: 74" x 34.5"h x 30"d
Price:
£1,950
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SOLD....Sheraton Mahogany Work Table
A very attractive Georgian mahogany pembroke work table in the Sheraton style, c.1790. The table has orginal brass knob handles and the richly figured top is crossbanded with rosewood.
Dimensions: 20.5" w (39" open) x 18"d x 29.5" h.
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