Lot Essay
This chair, retaining rococo influence in its scrolled serpentine arm-supports, closely relates to one at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no. W.8-1955) which has the same fluted frieze and patera panels shaped around the corners of the seat-rail (illustrated in M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, p. 142, cat. no. Q/6). A pair of chairs, identical to the one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, was illustrated in the Norman Adams Yearbook 1985, pl. 20 and The Antique Collector, November 1991.