Length 67 ins / 170 cms Provenance: Beverly S
Tatham published many designs of details and
would have been commissioned as part of a suite
However it is a set of four chairs from Somerville House
That does not mean that rococo frames weren't made after that date
Painted Neoclassical Open Armchair Mayhew and Ince tea table Length 67 ins / 170A sizable painted neoclassical open armchair in the manner of Mayhew and Ince having a carved and molded oval upholstered back, carved armrests with pads, the show wood rails fluted with interspersed roundels on turned fluted and tapered legs. English circa 1770 Ht. 36. 75", Seat ht. 17. 25", W. 21. 5', D. 20" Sold Sotheby's New York, October 18, 1997, lot 120, The present armchair is similar to the work of the London cabinet making firm of Mayhew and