A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT PADOUK AND MARQUETRY SIDE CHAIRS LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY Rare pair of Chinese export hall chairs, the vase shaped splats inlaid with a dog and crown armorial, slightly waved top-rails, dished moulded seat, the square chamfered legs joined by a turned 'H' stretcher.each 96cm high, 48cm wide, 53cm deep overallProvenance:The May family of Godmersham Park, Kent. These chairs were probably commissioned by Thomas May. Through the East India Company, for the newly-built house at Godmersham. The May armorial crest, 'a leopard's head out of a ducal coronet', is displayed within the serpentine cartouches. A cup bearing the crest of Thomas May is illustrated in David S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, 1975, p370