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Ford, —

Ford, —, address unrecorded. Set of four George III mahogany chairs including a pair of armchairs recorded, with rectangular panelled top rails, curved X-frame cross panels with reeded down-curved arms and baluster supports, and stuffed seats raised on turned legs: some are stamped ‘FORD’. [Sotheby's, 7 May 1971, lot 169] One item in a set of five single and an armchair, c. 1820–30, with X-framed backs, reeded uprights and turned front legs, at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham is stamped under the seat rail ‘FORD’.

The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.