EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY KLISMOS OPEN ARMCHAIR
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With anthemion-carved curved toprail above a horizontal panelled splat, the caned seat with green leather squab, with scrolled arms, on panelled sabre legs

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Lot Essay

The Grecian klismos library-chair, with 'Apollo' palm-flowered tablet and sunflowered libation paterae, reflects the robust Parisian style of 'Chaise à l'antique' promoted by T. Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 and executed by George Oakley (d. 1841) at his Bond Street 'Manufactory and Magazine for Fashionable Furniture'. Oakley supplied related chairs for Papworth Hall, Cambridgshire in 1810 and for Longleat, Wiltshire in 1812 (see A. E. Reveirs-Hopkis, Sheraton Period Furniture, Old Furniture, 1928, vol. 3, pp. 224-225 and a pair of chairs sold from Longleat, Christie's, London, 13 June 2002, lot 361).

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