A fine pair of George III mahogany hall stools in the manner of Mayhew and Ince

the dished serpentine seats carved to the sides with foliate ogee arches on matt reserves and with overscrolled ends with roundels on shaped lattice carved supports with carved monied sides joined by arched stretchers to the front and turned stretchers to the side on block feet.  Later carved.

The seats have been later-carved, the first with some minor stains to top, nice figured mahogany and color. Old repaired breaks to front stretcher to each and at join with legs. Back stretcher with old repaired breaks at ends at joins with legs. The other with old repaired breaks to ends of front and back stretchers at joins with legs. Top of one leg with small replaced section to edge. Underside of one foot with a replaced section. Approximately 2 inches by 1/2 inches. With one roundel replaced.
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Concieved to furnish an entrance hall these stools would have originally formed part of a larger suite. The dished seats on the current pair and the scrolled supports relate to designs by Mayhew and Ince and published in The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, pl. XXIV and also have strong similarities with a design by Robert Manwaring and published in his The Cabinet and Chair-maker's Real Friend and Companion, 1765, pl. 18, both of which are reproduced here. These stools are similar to another mahogany pair commissioned by Sir George Lyttelton, 5th Bt., and 1st Baron Lyttelton of Frankley (d. 1773) for the hall, Hagley Hall, Worcestershire, most recently sold at Sotheby's, London, June 4, 2008, lot 97 (£31,250) and to a japanned pair, decorated with the Bouverie arms of 1st Earl of Radnor from Coleshill, House, Berkshire, which sold in these rooms, The Bill Blass Collection, October 21-23, 2003, lot 238 ($54,000).