A George III Mahogany & Leather Gainsborough Armchair c.1800 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus spy networks and secret operations

spy networks and secret operations seemed a real and ever-present danger

with the original pin in place protected with cork

Ernest Forbes was a painter

the earliness of the piece and the use of pigskin

) fauns each with their hair tied back

A George III Mahogany & Leather Gainsborough Armchair c.1800 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus spy networks and secret operationsarOrigin: 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