A PAIR OF REGENCY DARK GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS, the curved table toprail decorated with key-pattern above a rectangular solid splat decorated en grisaille with a mythological scene, with scrolled arms and rounded caned seat on turned tapering fluted legs, one with repairs to back, re-decorated apart from the grisaille panels (2)

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A PAIR OF REGENCY DARK GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS, the curved table toprail decorated with key-pattern above a rectangular solid splat decorated en grisaille with a mythological scene, with scrolled arms and rounded caned seat on turned tapering fluted legs, one with repairs to back, re-decorated apart from the grisaille panels (2)

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These 'parlour' chairs of early 1800's 'Grecian' pattern, with beaded figurative-tablets and sabre-legs, are painted with festive scenes in the nammer of black 'Etrucsan' vases. They reflect the 'antique' style promoted by the antiquarian Thoman Hope at his Duchess Street mansion museum and popularised by Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker's and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, London, 1791-94

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