A REGENCE POLYCHROME-DECORATED LEATHER AND PARCEL-GILT CHAISE A PORTER, the domed top mounted with flaming finials to the angles, the arched frieze carved with trailing scrolls and foliage above a glazed door enclosing a gold-tasselled velvet-lined interior with squab- cushioned seat and two later shelves flanked by glazed sides with stiff-leaf slip frame above a female mask within a foliate C-scroll cartouche, the close-nailed leather painted with foliate sprays and putti and the reverse depicting naked nymphs in a floral landscape surmounted by a stylised cartouche with grotesque masks, with cherub angles above a waved apron carved with trailing acanthus and centred by a scallop-shell, with cast-iron fittings for carrying arms to the sides, restorations, later decorated

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A REGENCE POLYCHROME-DECORATED LEATHER AND PARCEL-GILT CHAISE A PORTER, the domed top mounted with flaming finials to the angles, the arched frieze carved with trailing scrolls and foliage above a glazed door enclosing a gold-tasselled velvet-lined interior with squab- cushioned seat and two later shelves flanked by glazed sides with stiff-leaf slip frame above a female mask within a foliate C-scroll cartouche, the close-nailed leather painted with foliate sprays and putti and the reverse depicting naked nymphs in a floral landscape surmounted by a stylised cartouche with grotesque masks, with cherub angles above a waved apron carved with trailing acanthus and centred by a scallop-shell, with cast-iron fittings for carrying arms to the sides, restorations, later decorated
32in. (81cm.) wide; 71in. (180.5cm.) high; 38in. (96.5cm.) deep

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