Live Auction 7071Fine English and Continental Furniture
A SET OF TWELVE FRENCH WALNUT DINING CHAIRS
Lot 31THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A SET OF TWELVE FRENCH WALNUT DINING CHAIRS

LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, IN THE GOTHIC REVIVAL STYLE

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GBP 2,400

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A SET OF TWELVE FRENCH WALNUT DINING CHAIRS
LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, IN THE GOTHIC REVIVAL STYLE
Each with an arched top rail inset with a male or female figure on spirally fluted uprights, flanking the leather padded back embossed with leather dragons, one supporting an armorial with gilt thistle, with a similarly embossed seat on rusticated turned tapering legs joined by curved x-stretchers and on turned feet (12)

Specialist note

These banqueting hall chairs are designed in the late 19th century romantic medieaval manner, with rusticated columnar legs, busts of courtly jesters and maidens framed in their Gothic arched crestings and golden thistles emblazoned on the dragon-guarded shields of their embossed leather. Patterns for related chairs designed by A. Harthan were published in Blatter für Kunstgewerbe, Vienna, 1887.