FIVE ARMCHAIRS REGENCY, THE REMAINING CHAIRS LATE 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF THIRTEEN EBONIZED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING-CHAIRS
Five armchairs Regency, the remaining chairs late 20th Century
Comprising seven arm chairs and six side chairs, each with a pierced rectangular back inset with a caned oval centred by a conformingly painted panel depicting playing putti, above a caned seat with a buttoned squab-cushion covered in green material, on ring-turned tapering legs with outscrolled feet, one squab-cushion missing, re-touches to painted panels (13)

Literature

C. Jones, Colefax & Fowler - The Best in English Interior Decoration, New York, London, a.o., 3rd edn., 1998, p. 182 (illustrated).

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The chair pattern, with reeded columnar legs and grisaille medallion depicting sporting youths in antiquity, corresponds to that of a pair of chairs acquired in 1899 by the South Kensington Victoria and Albert Museum (R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, vol. I, fig 258). The latter also feature figurative tablets on the crest rails. A pair of similar chairs was sold in these Rooms, 11 April 1991, lot 95.

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