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A PAIR OF BIRCH AND EBONISED SIDE CHAIRS
Lot 337

A PAIR OF BIRCH AND EBONISED SIDE CHAIRS

PROBABLY EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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GBP 576

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A PAIR OF BIRCH AND EBONISED SIDE CHAIRS
PROBABLY EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with a bar toprail and slender reeded vertical splat decorated with foliage, a brown suede upholstered seat and slender square tapering sabre legs, each stamped to the underside No 5526 (2)

Specialist note

A chair of similar design, from Castle Tiefurt, near Weimar, is illustrated in Ernst Rettelbusch, Handbook of Historic Ornament, originally published in 1937, rev. ed. New York, 1996, pl. 246.