A set of eight George III mahogany dining chairs, seven by Thomas Chippendale, circa 1769, one of later date

Almost certainly the “14 Mahogany Chairs with Antique backs & term feet very richly Carvd with hollow seats stuffd and covered with Red Morocco Leather & double Brass naild” commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Shelbourne in 1769 from Thomas Chippendale;

Coxe Burrell & Foster, London, Lansdown House, Berkeley Square: A Catalogue of all the Handsome Household Furniture [...] by Order of the Executors of the Late Most Noble the Marquis of Lansdown, Thursday 27th March 1806, no.XXL ‘Breakfast Room’, lots 5 and 6 “Eight carved mahogany chairs, covered with Morocco, and brass-nailed” and “Six ditto”;

With Moss Harris & Sons in 1937;

Purchased in 1946 by Phyllis Millard (née Tetley);

By descent to Sir Guy Millard, K.C.M.G, C.V.O.;

Christie’s Londres, The Exceptional Sale, 10 Juillet 2014, lot 31

M. Harris & Sons, The English Chair, London, 1937, p. 142, pl. LXXIIA 

C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. I, p.90, fig.144.