A SET OF SIX SWEDISH WHITE-PAINTED SIDE CHAIRS

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX SWEDISH WHITE-PAINTED SIDE CHAIRS
Late 18th Century
Each with padded seat covered in blue patterned material, the curved tablet top rail above a pierced seat back with acanthus spray splat between two conformingly carved uprights above a lotus-leaf carved frieze, on patera and lotus-leaf headed turned tapering fluted legs, one chair with later blocks, one seat rail inscribed in crayon '1891' and 'FRASIG' (?) (6)

Lot Essay

A related chair of this form, with tablet back and lotus-leaf wrapped legs, by Erik hrmark is illustrated in S. Wallin, Nordiska Museets Mbler Fran Svenska Herrenmanshem, Lund, 1979, vol. III, fig. 1142, p. 139.

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