Pair of carved mahogany dining chairs, each chair with a bowed crest rail with acanthus carving along the top edge and terminating at each end with relief-carved scrolled "ram's horns" continuing to grooved styles holding a foliate carved stay rail centering an anthemion, above an upholstered slip seat on a bolection-molded seat rail raised on turned, tapering legs with lotus carved decoration, on metal casters and saber legs in back.

PAIR OF CARVED MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS

Salem, c. 1830

Each with a bowed crest rail with acanthus carving along the top edge and terminating at each end with relief-carved scrolled “ram’s horns” continuing to grooved styles holding a foliate carved stay rail centering an anthemion, above an upholstered slip seat on a bolection-molded seat rail raised on turned, tapering legs with lotus carved decoration, on metal casters and saber legs in back.

H: 33¾”   W: 17″  D: 20½”

Condition: Excellent: Wear consistent with age. Modern upholstery.

These bold carved mahogany dining chairs in the style of William IV, possibly by the firm of Kimball & Sargent, (Abraham Kimball (1798-1890) and Winthrop Sargent (1799-1850), active 1822-1843), are part of the same set as a pair of identical chairs held by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. 

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