A pair of unusual George IV gothic carved oak hall chairs In the manner of Richard Bridgens, the turned top-rails above pierced double arched splats, flanked by blind fret quatrefoils above rectangular seats with further quatrefoils on the seat-rails, on ring turned tapering legs and spool feet, each 44cm wide, 41cm deep, 89cm high, seat height 45cm. (2) The triumphal arched backs of these chairs are fretted in the romantic 'Elizabethan' fashion of medieval window tracery, as introduced in the mid-18th Century by the author Horace Walpole; but they are conceived in the more robust gothic fashion promoted in the early 19th Century at Windsor Castle by James Wyatt (d.1813) as Surveyor General of King George III's Office of Works. The Gothic manner was further promoted by George Smith's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826. The chair's front legs are virtually identical to those of an armchair, attributed to George Smith, sold Christie's London, 22 May 2008, lot 47 while its back legs are chamfered in the manner, characteristic of both George Bullock and Richard Bridgens.