A SET OF TEN GEORGE IV MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRSATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1825To include a pair of armchairs, bearing Journeyman's stamp AP, one chair possibly matchedeach approximately 86cm high, 50cm wide, 52cm deep overall Provenance: The collection of Standish Robert Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort (1888- 1975) at Hamsterley Hall, Co. DurhamInherited by The Hon. Catherine Mary 'Kate' Wass, OBE (1942-2021) upon the death of her great-uncle, the 7th Viscount Gort, in 1975Illustrated: C. Hussey, 'Hamsterley Hall, Durham: The Seat of the Hon. S.R. Vereker, M.C.', Country Life, 21 October 1939, p. 421, fig. 9; R.E.Four chairs from the set were photographed in 'Henry Swinburne's Gothic Dining Room' at Hamsterley Hall by Country Life in 1939; one chair from the set, p. 420, fig. 7.The journeyman initials 'AP' appear eleven times on a set of twenty-four dining chairs made by Gillows for William, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782-1850) for Hackwood House in 1813, sold 'Hackwood', Christie's, 20-22 April 1998, Lot 158 (S.E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. II, p. 211). Related scroll arms can be found on a set of twelve brass-inlaid rosewood dining chairs for which a design dated 1810 exists in the Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, see ibid., vol. I, p. 314, pl. 191. Another rosewood model with buhl-inlay, circa 1813, is at Tatton Park, Cheshire (ibid., pp. 220, pl. 203, 202).