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PROPERTY FROM A ROBERT KIME INTERIOR, BELGRAVIA (LOTS 47, 49, 51, 53-56, 58-59, 61-62 & 299)

A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND NEEDLEWORK SIDE CHAIRS

CIRCA 1760

Name: A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND NEEDLEWORK SIDE CHAIRS
Brand: CIRCA 1760
Price: 9000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 11,340

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GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000

Closed: 23 Oct 2024

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND NEEDLEWORK SIDE CHAIRS

CIRCA 1760

Price Realised GBP 11,340

Closed: 23 Oct 2024

Price Realised GBP 11,340

Closed: 23 Oct 2024

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Each with rectangular back and seat upholstered in gros and petit-point floral needlework on channelled legs carved with bead-and-reel motif with moulded stretchers and plain back legs, one stamped 'II' the other 'IV'
39 in. (99 cm.) high; 23¹⁄₂ in. (59.5 cm.) wide; 25¹⁄₂ in. (65 cm.) deep

Raine, Countess of Dartmouth.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 April 1998, lot 61.

A. Coleridge, ‘Furniture in the collection of Viscount and Viscountess Lewisham’ Connoisseur, November 1962, p. 144, fig. 5. illustrated in the Library.

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Lot Essay

Previously in the celebrated collection of Raine Countess Spencer. An icon of London society, Lady Spencer was widely praised for her taste, she expressed her love of antiques eloquently in 1972 when, as Countess of Dartmouth, she opened the Northern Antiques Fair: ‘Every antique shop is to me a potential Aladdin’s cave. I love gazing at paintings, admiring rare bronzes or the patina of walnut and satinwood. ’