Lot 107
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A SET OF TWELVE REGENCY EBONISED, PARCEL-GILT AND DECORATED DINING-CHAIRS
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A SET OF TWELVE REGENCY EBONISED, PARCEL-GILT AND DECORATED DINING-CHAIRS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE REGENCY EBONISED, PARCEL-GILT AND DECORATED DINING-CHAIRS
Early 19th Century
Comprising four open armchairs and eight side chairs, each with curved toprail and pierced tablet splat with various English 'Georgic' and 'Arcadian' landscape scenes above a caned seat, on turned tapering slightly outsplayed legs, refreshments to decoration, with later squab cushion covered in green foliate damask (12)
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Lot Essay

The stamp of the Wardour Street chair-maker John Gee has been recorded on a number of closely related japanned and cane-seated parlour chairs executed in the first decade of the 19th century (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, fig. 391). A set of related chairs, painted with picturesque Yorkshire views, was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 20 January 1995, lot 408.

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