A George III Mahogany & Leather Gainsborough Armchair c.1800 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus which had a strong expansion

which had a strong expansion in seventeenth-century France

Ernest Forbes was a painter

the earliness of the piece and the use of pigskin

The knob handles are later and have been matched in and the escutcheons are also later

These may be the physical remains of saints

A George III Mahogany & Leather Gainsborough Armchair c.1800 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus which had a strong expansionarOrigin: English Period: George III Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 Height: 35. 5 or 18 at seat Width: 28 Depth: 26 The George III period mahogany and tan leather Gainsborough armchair having a low square back above a sprung seat and low enclosed arms, covered in tan leather with brass stud trim, raised on square tapered legs and joined by stretchers and surviving from the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The chair is lovely original