A PAIR OF LATE REGENCY GILTWOOD BERGERES

CIRCA 1815

Details

A PAIR OF LATE REGENCY GILTWOOD BERGERES
Circa 1815
Each slight scrolling back, outscrolled arms and loose-cushioned seat upholstered in rose-and-white striped silk, the arm supports carved with stylized lotus and palmettes on turned tapering legs headed by lotus and with brass caps and casters, regilt, one inscribed in pencil J Webb(?), the second Sede(?) (2)

Provenance

Part of a larger suite supplied to Nathaniel, 2nd Baron Scarsdale (d.1837) for Kedleston, Derbyshire
Thence by descent until sold by The Viscount Scarsdale and the Kedleston Trustees, Christie's London, 5 July 1990, lot 88

Literature

C.Hussey, English Country Houses, Mid-Georgian, London, 1956, p.76, fig.139 (shown in situ in the Drawing Room at Kedleston)

Lot Essay

These bergeres are part of a suite of 'Grecian' seat furniture, including armchairs and caned bergere chairs, which formed part of the transformation of the 'Adam' State Drawing Room furnishings carried out by Nathaniel, 2nd Baron Scarsdale (1751-1837), who inherited Kedleston in 1804.

A related design with carved show frame to the back was published in P. and M. Nicholson's Practical Cabinet-Maker, 1826 (see F.Collard, Regency Furniture, Suffolk, 1985, p.300). A closely related pair was sold Christie's London, 21 January 1985, lot 72.