Live Auction 4948European Furniture, Works of Arts, Tapestries and Carpets
A GERMAN ANTLER CHAIR
Lot 143THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A GERMAN ANTLER CHAIR

MID-19TH CENTURY

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GBP 960

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A GERMAN ANTLER CHAIR
MID-19TH CENTURY
Embellished with bone and teeth, the back centred by a boss with a running hare, with a green velvet padded seat, stencilled to the underside AH.PRIVATFON.. /NO 99

By repute, Emperor Franz Joseph's hunting lodge, Ishel, Austria

Specialist note

The Hamburg firm of H.F.C. Rampendahl has been credited with the manufacture of a suite of similar rustic chairs of stag-horn, embellished with bone and teeth, that was introduced in 1846 at the Royal Pavilion, Osborne. See M.Turner, Osborne House 1995, and S.Jervis, Furniture in Horn and Antler, The Connoisseur, November 1977, p.190.