A SET OF FOUR IRISH MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS CIRCA 1755

each with accession number 1945-41a - d, painted in red to each seat rail.  Refinished, aprons once fitted with applied decoration, losses, restorations.

Overall in good restored condition, chair "1945-41a" with old repair to top of left stile at juncture with top rail, two age cracks to front right corner of apron, plugged repair to back right leg at join with seatrail, back right foot pieced, chair "1945-41b" with patched repair at juncture of back right seat rail with back right leg, slight age crack to back seat rail at juncture with splat, back right leg with old repaired break, age crack to front left corner of apron, some infilled age cracks to splat and stile, chair "1945-41c" with patched repair at join of splat and top rail, old repaired break to back right leg at juncture with back seat-rail, age cracks to front left and right corners of apron, left corner of apron with a plug, age crack to back seat rail at juncture with splat, back right foot spliced, infilled age crack to front left leg, chair "1945-41d" with pieced top left stile at juncture with top rail, some age cracks to front left and right corners of apron, small patch to left side apron at juncture with front left leg,age crack to back seat rail at juncture with splat, overall the chairs with old marks and scratches and with some infilled age cracks.
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The design of these chairs share affinities with Irish chairs of the mid eighteenth century, illustrated, The Knight of Glin and James Piell, Irish Furniture, 2007.  The pierced back splat follows a typical Director style but maintains a more flamboyant aesthetic typical of Irish chairs, and compares with a dining chair at Glin Castle, Co. Limerick, circa 1750-1760, op. cit. p. 209, fig. 22.  The stylized scallop shells to the cresting rail (and once possibly to the center of the front apron) and the pierced claw-and-ball foot are emblematic of Irish design.  The wide cresting rail with shell-carved ears is similar to the cresting of an armchair previously at Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin, circa 1760, illustrated op. cit. p. 107, fig. 137.