£800
A set of twelve George III 19th century mahogany dining chairs. The long run of chairs having an inlaid back rest with reeded top rail and inset satinwood panels. Overstuffed seat below raised on turned supports united by peripheral stretchers.
Part of a collection from Netheravon House, in Netheravon, Wiltshire. The house was built after 1734 by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, on a commanding part of the chalk bluff that overlooks the Avon Valley, to the south of the 11th-century village church and close to where a Roman villa stood. The grounds were laid out by the landscape architect and astronomer Thomas Wright and published in Universal Architecture in 1755 and 1758.
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